how to mount USB hard drive?

[Tom Cloyd]

First, as this is my first post, let me express my gratitude for, and great pleasure with. Krusader. As a Kubuntu user, I've been using the default file manager, Dolphin, which lately has been misbehaving for me rather badly. After a careful search, I settled on Krusader. Within 5 minutes I was utterly delighted. This is an extraordinarily fine utility. I have no desire to return to Dolphin. I'm grateful, as I've said, to have chanced upon it, and will stay with it, I'm sure.

I've been using it rather heavily, and have found it basically rather easy to learn, except for one issue.

I often plug in an external USB hard drive for backups, using Unison. I cannot figure out how to locate and mount it, using Krusader. I could figure out how to do it using a terminal, certainly, but as I'm learning Krusader, and believe there has to be a way within this program. In Dolphin, it just shows up, ready to be mounted. In Krusader I cannot find it at all. I'm lost.

Can anyone advise me how to resolve this problem? Thanks in advance.

[Yuri Chornoivan]

2012/11/5 Tom Cloyd <tomclo...@gmail.com>:

Hi!

There is a special section in the Krusader manual about this:

http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-utils/krusader/mount-man.html

In short, you can left-click on the icon on Krusader top panel, then
right-click on a media item to access the mounting options.

Screenshot:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55247264/kr_mount.png

You can also configure automounting for your device through Solid KCM:

http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kde-runtime/kcontrol/solid-device-automounter/index.html

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Yuri

[Tom Cloyd]

Thank you! That's slick, fast, and perfectly usable. I guessed at the
unmount procedure, and got it right. It's nice when a program does what
you'd expect. Perfect!

Tom