Papercut #1038428 of running Debian on my laptop rather than a downstream: USB drives don't automount and I have no clue what package to install to fix this
@ehashman
I don't know if it is expected to be auto mounted. Usually in graphical environments it is shown as a new device and just clicking on it mounts it. For example in nautilus or dolphin it comes up as a new disk on the sidebar. What is your usecase? If it is an always connected external drive, you can just add it to /etc/fstab. This may also have auto mount options. Did you mean hot plug and auto mount together?
@praveen @ehashman yeah, just have to add /dev/sdb, /dev/sdb1, /dev/mmcblk0p1, etc, etc, and remember annoying incantations to mount when needed (remember to use lsblk to find which applies, comparing output before and after insertion, as dmesg is now not user applicable), and typing this all out makes me wonder how it's been 20 years and this all still sucks so much...
@praveen @keverets@social.librem.one yes and that was the thing that wasn't working because there were 2 missing gvfs-* dependencies
@keverets
In normal hot plug, you don't need any of these, you just have to click once on the device icon in Nautilus or Dolphin or another file manager. You anyway have to click once to open it in file browser.
@ehashman