Re: Automounter in KDE
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:18, serja wrote:
give it a shot, it's really kinda cool. I use it for data recovery and for
making partition images. I've also used to hard-disk install script on a
laptop.
Chris
> > > Kanotix
>
> what kanotix is?
>
> ------- Original message -------
> 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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