-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2009-01-13 at 08:17 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Maybe I should go back to my original question:
On Monday January 12 2009, Randall R Schulz wrote:
So what are the relevant subsystems, commands and configuration files I need to learn about to get manual mounting for select external drives and partitions?
Or, to rephrase it a bit, what do I have to learn about to understand how automounting is controlled and configured in openSUSE 11.1.
It is controlled by the desktop. Hal and udev detects the new device, give it a device node, and report to the desktop (don't ask me how, I don't know myself). (there is a thing called "dbus" which I think is involved in the mechanism) To prove if I'm correct or not, we could log out of the desktop, login text mode only, and plug a usb disk. If it is mounted, it is not the desktop. I think that, if the device is listed in fstab as "noauto" there is the convention not to mount it automatically. [...] damm, no... I tried one and it appeared. [...] Ah, yes, it works. The thing is that the device that previously appeared as: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Kingston_DataTravelerCR_ad053f40c9f050-part1 now is: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Kingston_DataTravelerCR_ad053f40c9f050-0:0-part1 I changed the line in fstab, re-plugged the device, and gnome ignored it, was not mounted automatically. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklszxEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W6OwCcCUFcLxXn1fL+10vSNcluT34D tq0An0WpA0hWWpzQ+9wAN5s0A1PAl2wM =Xz6e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org