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> From: "Hendrik Boom" <hendrik@???>

> Over the years the state of mounting USB drives has steadily
> deteriorated on my Debian Jessie laptop.
>
As far as I can tell, that was caused by the introduction of
systemd as a requirement for mounting removable media (at least
the "standard" way of mounting removable media).

Before I stopped using Jessie, I had USB mounting working
with the spacefm file manager and either udevil or pmount to
handle the removable devices. Let me know if anybody wants
instruction on that.

-Rob