Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (193 mails)

[Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 02:07 schrieb houghi:
> - subfs has been dropped and will be replaced by hal plus
>   gnome-volume-manager (under GNOME) and some binary for KDE.
>   non-KDE and non-GNOME users have to mount manually. 

I don't know what these highly-developed do exactly, but I guess there's 
a GUI and a (suid-root?) backend calling mount. (Correct me if I'm 
wrong.)

Is it difficult to create a shell script or a little console app called 
by HAL to do the automount? If not, create one - it will work on 
console and in all window managers. Problem solved.

Hmmm... - that sounds _too_ simple, what did I miss? ;)

> 	- As the question came from an FAQ about having subfs disables, is
> 	  there perhaps a better solution for everybody. Easy disableling
> 	  subfs for those who want it and enabled for those who want that.

Volker already suggested a /etc/sysconfig variable - sounds good for me 
and will finally solve this FAQ ;-)
(maybe separate variables for CDs, floppies, USB harddisks, other USB 
devices might be even more useful, but that's the sugar icing ;-)

I also agree that the *.fdi files are *NOT* user-friendly and would be 
happy to have a better solution. (/etc/fstab also holds mount options 
in a more user-friendly format. I know that's not exactly the same as 
the *.fdi do, but it should be possible to have a similar format.)


Regards,

Christian Boltz
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