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I have a headless machine running Ubuntu Server sitting in my closet. I would like to have USB disks automounted when I plug them in just like on my laptop. Is it possible to set up gvfs or some other automounting system for use in a console and ssh environment, with no X11 installed?

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There is a daemon application ivman:

sudo apt-get install ivman

Or according to this :

sudo apt-get install usbmount
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I was hoping for a solution that would mount things under the same names as GNOME or KDE does. – Ryan Thompson Sep 25 '10 at 18:23
Also, I thought ivman has been unmaintained for years. – Ryan Thompson Nov 19 '10 at 5:13

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