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Automount in Xfce4 just stopped working

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – A little while ago my usb drives stopped auto mounting. It might have been after an update but not sure where to look. I have been manually mounting them as root and that is a pain. Is there maybe even something better that I can have more control over the mounting? I would like a small program that would let me mount and unmount drives with one click to a folder in /mnt/(device name) with user read/write permissions. Udev is kind of a gray area/black magic to me. I have tried 100 times to figure it out but I can't help but think there should be a much simpler way. Such as in Puppy Linux h (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 06/26/2012 – Made popular on 06/26/2012

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Howdy,

I've spent a good chunk of time hunting around for a solution to my problem. No luck. My USB devices are giving me trouble. The computer recognizes them, but is unable to mount or unmount them automatically (or by rightclick > mount volume).

I have automount enabled, but it does not work for disks. I have tried mounting manually, but then it gives me an error saying: mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read only. mount: /dev/sr0: can't read superblock.

I am trying to burn a .iso file to a blank DVD. I cannot see this disk in any way.

Thanks in advance, Codingman

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