Re: Automounter in KDE
BTW I haven't tested it with usb devices (actually my usb scanner waren't
detected by it), but with removable media ivman work just fine.
------- Original message -------
From: serja <mekoc@inbox.ru>
To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Automounter in KDE
Date: 11 Август 2005 16:13
> > This has been a long thread which has left me none the wiser. Could
> > somebody sum up the present conclusions or point to an easy-to-understand
> > resource on present KDE, Debian or Linux mounting philosophy?
>
> I think developers from kernel.org not really support the idea of
> automounting and they definitely not support the unplugging / hardware
> eject of removable media thingies without umounting them.
>
> ------- Original message -------
> From: Theo Schmidt <tschmidt@mus.ch>
> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Automounter in KDE
> Date: 11 Август 2005 09:51
>
> > Am Dienstag, 9. August 2005 20.45 schrieb Tony Godshall:
> > ...
> >
> > > How about mount-on-demand?
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > I find it best to mount writable removables with -o sync.
> > > That way apps finish saving when they appear to finish saving,
> > > which limits damage by novice users and dont-care-about-the-
> > > technical-details users and old-hand-who-just-forgot users.
> > >
> > > The union of the above sets of users, oddly, appears to encompass
> > > the majority of the population (;-)).
> >
> > It certainly includes me. I am rather confused about the apparently
> > happening transition from manual mounting to automounting in Linux. I
> > would like to have a system where either everything is mounted and
> > umounted manually or everything is automatically and *reliably* mounted
> > and umounted (like the old Macintosh System with SCSI). I'm using Sarge
> > and it doesn't automatically mount USB devices when you plug them in and
> > I can manually mount some devices, but not others (I would happily enrole
> > in any "I hate USB" club). I've tried SuSE 9.1: this is dreadful,
> > automatically but unreliably mounting stuff unter strange names and
> > leaving old zombie folders about in /mnt.
> >
> > This has been a long thread which has left me none the wiser. Could
> > somebody sum up the present conclusions or point to an easy-to-understand
> > resource on present KDE, Debian or Linux mounting philosophy?
> >
> > Theo Schmidt
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