$ aptitude show usbmount
Package: usbmount
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.0.22
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Maintainer: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
Architecture: all
Uncompressed Size: 119 k
Depends: lockfile-progs, udev, util-linux (> 2.16)
Recommends: pmount
Description: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices
This package automatically mounts USB mass storage devices (typically USB pens) when they are plugged in, and unmounts
them when they are removed. The mountpoints (/media/usb[0-7] by default), filesystem types to consider, and mount
options are configurable. When multiple devices are plugged in, the first available mountpoint is automatically
selected. If the device provides a model name, a symbolic link /var/run/usbmount/MODELNAME pointing to the mountpoint is
automatically created.
The script that does the mounting is called by the udev daemon. Therefore, USBmount requires a 2.6 (or newer) Linux
kernel.
Firewire devices are also supported by USBmount.
USBmount is intended as a lightweight solution which is independent of a desktop environment. Users which would like an
icon to appear when an USB device is plugged in should use the pmount and hal packages instead.
Homepage: http://usbmount.alioth.debian.org/