Re: kde, udev, hal and friends...
Derek Broughton wrote:
> Christian Schuerer wrote:
>
>> On Monday 01 May 2006 15:10, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> > This way the primary name of the device will be its normal kernel
>>> > name, but you will always get /dev/my_music pointing to the right /dev
>>> > entry.
>>>
>>> Of course, if you have volume labels on the partitions, they will be
>>> automatically mounted at /media/<label> - we don't _have_ to modify
>>> udev :-)
>>
>> Why should it be mounted automatically? Udev doesn't mount, it just
>> creates the device nodes
>
> Where do you figure that? Every time I install a USB storage device it's
> automatically mounted, and yes, it's mounted at /media/<label> (provided a
> partition label exists). Why _shouldn't_ udev mount? Hotplug could, and
> udev replaces it. Non-removable storage is not automatically mounted
> (though it could be if you wanted it), but removables are handled
> differently.
Oops, sorry - YMMV :-)
I'm using Ubuntu, so it's entirely possible that this behaviour isn't
happening under Debian - but this doesn't change the fact that such
behaviour _is_ configurable.
--
derek
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