[opensuse-factory] Symbolic link /media/cdrom
My personal feature request for 10.2 set a symbolic link each time a CD/DVD is inserted with /media/cdrom. The link should always point to the last inserted CD/DVD. /media/SUSE_LINUX_10.1 is cool, but its hard to work with CDs on command line and writing documentation for Suse is also very hard. So please let's become cd /media/cdrom true for Suse Linux 10.2. Konqueror,etc should/can still show the label of the disk. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG Süskindstr. 4 D-81929 München Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Am Montag, 21. August 2006 17:51 schrieb Marcel Hilzinger:
My personal feature request for 10.2
set a symbolic link each time a CD/DVD is inserted with /media/cdrom. The link should always point to the last inserted CD/DVD.
So if you have two trays, the last one wins? Hardly a convincing concept. Especially as you can mount and unmount CDs at free will. Greetings, Stephan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Am Montag, 21. August 2006 17:56 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
Am Montag, 21. August 2006 17:51 schrieb Marcel Hilzinger:
My personal feature request for 10.2
set a symbolic link each time a CD/DVD is inserted with /media/cdrom. The link should always point to the last inserted CD/DVD.
So if you have two trays, the last one wins? Hardly a convincing concept. You can also work with
/media/cdrom /media/cdrom0 /media/cdrom1 etc for several trays, but the "last one wins" seems more user friendly for me.
Especially as you can mount and unmount CDs at free will. Why should I have to
mkdir /media/cdrom mount foo bla manually, if it can be done automatically? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG Süskindstr. 4 D-81929 München Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Am Montag, 21. August 2006 18:09 schrieb Marcel Hilzinger:
Am Montag, 21. August 2006 17:56 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
Am Montag, 21. August 2006 17:51 schrieb Marcel Hilzinger:
My personal feature request for 10.2
set a symbolic link each time a CD/DVD is inserted with /media/cdrom. The link should always point to the last inserted CD/DVD.
So if you have two trays, the last one wins? Hardly a convincing concept.
You can also work with
/media/cdrom /media/cdrom0 /media/cdrom1
etc for several trays, but the "last one wins" seems more user friendly for me.
Well, you can add /media/cdrom to your fstab and then every CD inserted in /dev/hdc will be mounted there - but I'd see it as a regression. Greetings, Stephan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Hello, Marcel Hilzinger schrieb:
set a symbolic link each time a CD/DVD is inserted with /media/cdrom. The link should always point to the last inserted CD/DVD. /media/SUSE_LINUX_10.1 is cool, but its hard to work with CDs on command line and writing documentation for Suse is also very hard. So please let's become cd /media/cdrom true for Suse Linux 10.2. Konqueror,etc should/can still show the label of the disk.
I always though this was the case since 10.0: It is mounted to /media/device (device could be "dvdram", "cdrom", "cdwriter" etc.) and there is a symbolic link from /media/<LABEL> to /media/<device>. I cannot check at the moment (no CD around), but I though this was the case. See SUSE Linux 10.0 bugreport: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=98347 -------------<cut>----------------- /From Danny Kukawka 2005-08-28 02:23:46 MST /Changed for beta 4 to this behavior: * if we ge a new volume /device for mount check if the device / volume is already mounted (this was also in the current solution) * if not mounted: ask udevinfo for known symlinks * check if there is a free symlink with a related existing directory in /media --> if there is a existing, not mounted dir in /media: - mount to this mountpoint and add a link with volume label --> if there is a existing, mounted dir in /media: - try to find an other --> if no dir available: - mount to volume label / desired_mount_point from HAL (if the user want a mount to a special device: change udev rule and add the needed directories to /media) -------------<cut>----------------- Tobias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Hello,
Marcel Hilzinger schrieb:
set a symbolic link each time a CD/DVD is inserted with /media/cdrom. The link should always point to the last inserted CD/DVD. /media/SUSE_LINUX_10.1 is cool, but its hard to work with CDs on command line and writing documentation for Suse is also very hard. So please let's become cd /media/cdrom true for Suse Linux 10.2. Konqueror,etc should/can still show the label of the disk.
I always though this was the case since 10.0: It is mounted to /media/device (device could be "dvdram", "cdrom", "cdwriter" etc.) and there is a symbolic link from /media/<LABEL> to /media/<device>. That's true for 10.0, but not for 10.1. That's why I suggest to always keep
Am Montag, 21. August 2006 18:27 schrieb Tobias Burnus: the simple /media/cdrom The intermezzo with /media/cdrwriter, /media/dvdram, /media/dvdwriter was not very successful I guess. Coolo: Please ask also the documentation team. It's really hard to write docu for Suse Linux if you cannot tell users, where CDs/DVDs will be mounted! -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG Süskindstr. 4 D-81929 München Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 18:33 +0200, Marcel Hilzinger wrote:
Hello,
Marcel Hilzinger schrieb:
set a symbolic link each time a CD/DVD is inserted with /media/cdrom. The link should always point to the last inserted CD/DVD. /media/SUSE_LINUX_10.1 is cool, but its hard to work with CDs on command line and writing documentation for Suse is also very hard. So please let's become cd /media/cdrom true for Suse Linux 10.2. Konqueror,etc should/can still show the label of the disk.
I always though this was the case since 10.0: It is mounted to /media/device (device could be "dvdram", "cdrom", "cdwriter" etc.) and there is a symbolic link from /media/<LABEL> to /media/<device>. That's true for 10.0, but not for 10.1. That's why I suggest to always keep
Am Montag, 21. August 2006 18:27 schrieb Tobias Burnus: the simple
/media/cdrom
The intermezzo with /media/cdrwriter, /media/dvdram, /media/dvdwriter was not very successful I guess.
Coolo: Please ask also the documentation team. It's really hard to write docu for Suse Linux if you cannot tell users, where CDs/DVDs will be mounted!
In SLE at least, and presumably in 10.2, there are udev rules which
should handle this (works on SLE), see /etc/udev/rules.d/65-cdrom.rules
-JP
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JP Rosevear
Am Montag, 21. August 2006 19:44 schrieb JP Rosevear:
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 18:33 +0200, Marcel Hilzinger wrote:
Am Montag, 21. August 2006 18:27 schrieb Tobias Burnus:
Hello,
Marcel Hilzinger schrieb:
set a symbolic link each time a CD/DVD is inserted with /media/cdrom. The link should always point to the last inserted CD/DVD. /media/SUSE_LINUX_10.1 is cool, but its hard to work with CDs on command line and writing documentation for Suse is also very hard. So please let's become cd /media/cdrom true for Suse Linux 10.2. Konqueror,etc should/can still show the label of the disk.
I always though this was the case since 10.0: It is mounted to /media/device (device could be "dvdram", "cdrom", "cdwriter" etc.) and there is a symbolic link from /media/<LABEL> to /media/<device>.
That's true for 10.0, but not for 10.1. That's why I suggest to always keep the simple
/media/cdrom
The intermezzo with /media/cdrwriter, /media/dvdram, /media/dvdwriter was not very successful I guess.
Coolo: Please ask also the documentation team. It's really hard to write docu for Suse Linux if you cannot tell users, where CDs/DVDs will be mounted!
In SLE at least, and presumably in 10.2, there are udev rules which should handle this (works on SLE), see /etc/udev/rules.d/65-cdrom.rules
It's nice, that you want to help me, but I need no help in this case. My suggestion was thought to make SL 10.2 better usable _by alls users_, not by myself. Best regards, Marcel -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG Süskindstr. 4 D-81929 München Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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