Once you have gnome-volume-manager, you must have gnome-mount as well. The gnome-mount commands are planed to be used instend of invoking mount(1) /umount(1) /eject(1) in Gnome softwares. It takes care the settings like mount options and mount location.

If you are using Debian or Ubuntu, and installed the Gnome system by default. Your system probably already has Gnome Volume Manager.
The Gnome Volume Manger is a daemon which listens the hardware events (HAL event), and run the user-configurable commands. Basiclly, it do autorun, automount for the hot-plugged devices. In plain English, it run the [...]

最近時常有查閱多時區時鐘的需求，雖然 Linux 上有些小軟體可以設定顯示數個時區，像是簡單易用的 gworldclock, International clock 與 Sunclock 等。
但身為 Geek, 自然習慣在 Terminal 下工作，然後透過一些 Script 查看目前的時區，最簡易的作法就是利用 “TZ” 環境變數來快速的切換時區。