The automounter facility is managed by autofs. ”Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The automount daemons automatically mount filesystems when they are used and unmount them after a period of inactivity. This is done based on a set of pre-configured maps apt-get update apt-get install autofs insert stick dmesg add this line to nano /etc/auto.master /var/autofs/removable /etc/auto.removable --timeout=2 Where: * /var/autofs/removable is the directory where will be mounted your USB stick * /etc/auto.removable is another file that we have to create * –timeout=2 tells that the device will be umounted them after 2 seconds of idling nano /etc/auto.removable usbstick -fstype=vfat,rw,umask=002 :/dev/sda /etc/init.d/autofs restart cd /var/autofs/removable /var/autofs/removable# ls /var/autofs/removable# ls usbstick does not work for me ================================================================================