Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[todd rme <toddrme2178@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 April 2012 00:08:58 Tom Parker wrote:
>
> > 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!
>
> Of course. The auto-mounting policy should be written in
> /etc/udev/rules.d/81-mount.rules
>
> An administrator can edit this file to disable auto-mounting.

What about users?  You are saying users should have to manually edit
udev rule files just to disable automounting?  Especially when at
least some desktop environments provide GUIs to control their own
automounting already?   You are talking about a massive feature
regression just to remove a small daemon.

-Todd
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