On Tuesday January 13 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
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damm, no... I tried one and it appeared.
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Ah, yes, it works. The thing is that the device that previously appeared as:
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I changed the line in fstab, re-plugged the device, and gnome ignored it, was not mounted automatically.
Interesting. I always thought "noauto" only applied to the "mount -a" (including the mounting that occurs during system boot). But I see that it does inhibit automounting via HAL / udev / whatever. Oddly enough, I still get the KDE dialogs asking me what I want to do when the device comes on-line, even though it doesn't get mounted automatically. Well, that's the important part of what I wanted. No auto-mounting. Thanks.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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