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I have an old laptop with a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04. The GUI is painfully slow, especially when something is animating, so I followed these instructions to prevent the window manager from starting when my computer starts up.

When the window manager was running, if I plugged in my USB SD-card reader the card would be mounted automatically. This doesn’t happen when I’m in command-line mode. Is there a way to get Ubuntu to mount the card automatically even when the window manager isn’t running?

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  • Does installing usbmount and then rebooting do it? I don't have an SD card reader on my CLI install so I can't test it. I know it works for USB drives though. – Seth May 19 '14 at 20:56
  • I would seriously recommend using a lighter version of linux such as lubuntu or dsl rather than running everything through a terminal, however that also sounds really cool – Sir_Yoshi Aug 14 '14 at 04:22
  • fluxbox is way lighter – mchid Aug 17 '14 at 11:28

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You will want to install and set up udisks.

They should then be accessible in /mnt/media/, named by their UUID.

You can see the UUID's of the currently-connected devices by running sudo blkid or ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/.

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The process that listens for udisk events in GNOME is gvfsd(1). I think that if you start it in the background in a terminal session you should get automount.

Volumes mounted via gvfsd should be unmounted using gvfs-mount -u /media/volumename

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I use devmon running in a separate terminal. It is installed with the udevil package. the default mount location is /media/(Drive label).

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