Re: Automounter in KDE
> > Kanotix
what kanotix is?
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From: Alex Nordstrom <lx@se.linux.org>
To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Automounter in KDE
Date: 9 Август 2005 10:31
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 04:51, C. Hurschler wrote:
> > Kanotix mounts and places links to USB devices on the KDE desktop
> > just as one would expect, so it is possible (why shouldn't it be?).
> > When the device is removed the link dissapears from the desktop. I
> > don't know what packages or scripts or whatever are used to achieve
> > this.
>
> This, apparently:
>
> http://wiki.kanotix.net/CoMa.php?CoMa=usb-storage
>
> Note the comment:
>
> The script mounts every (useful) partition of your device and
> creates icons on your KDE desktop. If you pull the stick (or
> camera) the device is unmounted with "umount -l" ("lazy", because
> the device is already pulled) and the icon disappears.
>
> *Don't forget to do a sync before (or right mouseclick on the icon
> -> action -> save changes)!*
>
> I wonder how well-documented that is in the Kanotix distribution,
> because I saw several posts on the Kanotix forums:
>
> http://forum.kanotix.net/
>
> which appeared to be result of users being unaware of their hardware's
> missing telepathy circuitry.
>
> A couple of posters here too seem to be overlooking that simple fact
> that you can *never* get the advantages of buffered I/O (speed and
> extended hardware life) *and* expect the convenience of yanking
> rw-enabled drives out at your leisure without potentially incurring
> data loss. That's why working with floppy disks is generally somewhat
> faster under most Linux distributions than under MS Windows, but
> requiring manual unmounting.
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