How to mount external removable storage

We are on RHEL 6.4. I have a Dell external USB removable media device. lshw shows it as /dev/sdb. I am trying to figure the best way to configure it to use with RH. I am able to format the removable drive (/dev/sdb1). I have been able to assign it to a volume group and logical volume and allocate it as a file system. I was able to add the fs to fstab, but wasn't sure I did it right.

I have also seen information about using automount\autofs for external devices. But all references I have seen discusses how to configure it with NFS and I am not planning on using NFS.

So:
1) What is the best method to mount\use this external device?

2) What is the correct method to configure the device to mount automatically

Thanks