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Re: [opensuse-factory] Should implement systemwide automounting
- From: Tom Parker <tparker@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:08:58 -0400
- Message-id: <4F7A075A.70506@cbnco.com>
One thing that needs to be considered as well, there are times when
users may not want the system to auto-mount inserted media.
At work we use flash drives as bootable media and have various scripts
that format the flash drive, install boot loaders, and untar an
operating system image. They all fail horribly when the flash drive is
auto-mounted. On older versions of suse it was a nightmare to make this
stop as every time an fdisk finished, etc the disk would be re-detected
and auto-mounted.
If there is a system wide way of auto-mounting please make sure there is
a system-wide way to make it stop!
The current way that KDE4 handles it is excellent. I have an icon in
the tray that says there is new media. If I want to use the media I
click on it and it mounts. If I don't want it mounted I don't do
anything and nothing happens. There are no annoying popups to close or
anything else.
Thanks
On 03/30/2012 10:09 PM, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
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users may not want the system to auto-mount inserted media.
At work we use flash drives as bootable media and have various scripts
that format the flash drive, install boot loaders, and untar an
operating system image. They all fail horribly when the flash drive is
auto-mounted. On older versions of suse it was a nightmare to make this
stop as every time an fdisk finished, etc the disk would be re-detected
and auto-mounted.
If there is a system wide way of auto-mounting please make sure there is
a system-wide way to make it stop!
The current way that KDE4 handles it is excellent. I have an icon in
the tray that says there is new media. If I want to use the media I
click on it and it mounts. If I don't want it mounted I don't do
anything and nothing happens. There are no annoying popups to close or
anything else.
Thanks
On 03/30/2012 10:09 PM, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
Since hal was deprecated each desktop tries to handle automounting itself.--
Where hal automatically mounted any removable devices, now each desktop does
it in a separate and unique way and some desktops do not do at all.
As Greg advises doing automounting through udev rules a bad idea.
Without udev rules only a separate resident daemon can do automounting.
udisks-glue was suggested in this context but it requites an extensive config
file
(an example can be seen here: http://www.calculate-linux.ru/blogs/show/214)
The config file is not shipped with udisks-glue and no free third-party one
is available.
The config still calls udisks command-line utility that is dependent on
udisks version (incompatible
with udisks2).
So what a solution is there foe USB and CD drives automounting? Should it
remain a desktop-specific issue?
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