Automounting the USB key

[update: FC3 automounts in GNOME anyways without the hoopla - that new HAL thingy works well with udev. I'll try to get the dratted thingy to work in KDE. The stuff below does NOT work out with FC3 and above.] Add this to /etc/fstab to help the USB key mount automatically in GNOME

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat \
user,iocharset=utf8,umask=0,sync,quiet,\
exec,codepage=866,noauto 0 0

If you need to automount the USB key, edit /etc/auto.master and add:
/mnt/usb /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60

Then add this line into /etc/auto.misc:
usb -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,\
sync,dirsync,mode=777,uid=99,gid=99,umask=000 \
:/dev/sda1

(In the above line, the user nobody has the uid and gid of 99. This is chosen as autofs runs as root.)

Then start/restart autofs :
# chkconfig --level 345 autofs on
# service autofs restart

The USB drive will be mounted/unmounted automatically.

If you want to automount USB flashdrive without using automount:
Plugin your flash drive look a the tail end of dmesg. If there is something about the usb drive on /dev/sda1, then the following will work if you have devlabel:

$ devlabel add -d /dev/sda1 \
-s /dev/flashdrive --automount \
--perms 666

Edit /etc/fstab and add this line:
/dev/flashdrive /mnt/flashdrive \
auto noauto,noatime,user,kudzu 0 0

Next time your flashdrive is plugged in, it should be automounted at /mnt/usb.