Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Saskman wrote:
> On June 8, 2004 20:53, Chris Carlen wrote:
>
> > Hi:
> >
> > Regarding the subfs, submountd, and USB hotplugging issues that many of
> > us have experienced, I have a suggestion for a system that could be
> > implemented as an alternative to the default way it is in Suse 9.1,
> > while not regressing back to the fully manual approach.
>
> /cut for brevity/
>
> > Thanks for comments.
> >
> > Good day!
> > _____________________
> > Christopher R. Carlen
> > crobc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Suse 8.1 Linux 2.4.19
>
> Not bad but it is possible, don't ask me how I haven't tried it, to 
> permanently mount a specific device at a specific location. On the first try 
> it should query the user as where and what to do with it (e.g. display an 
> icon and automount it, open the filesystem, run an application). I know it's 
> possible through device ID. But the exact method I'm not sure of.
> Concluding, subsequent "mountings" of devices with the same ID would just be 
> done automagically.   


Look for devlabel.  It does something like that.