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Re: gnome-volume-manager: does not receive any messages



On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 01:53:13PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:37:51PM +0200, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> > Iserting a new data CD has no visible consequences. It is not auto
> > mounted, the "CD-Rom" icon in the "Computer" location remains
> > unchanged.  On unmounting, the CD is not ejected. Also, DVDs and empty
> > CDs are ignored.
> 
> AFAIK, g-v-m also needs special treatment of /etc/fstab in order to
> enable it to actually mount the stuff (as a user), did you look for
> that?
> 
> I've no idea how this is handled in Debian, but perhaps the
> documentation might give you a hint on this.

gvm just calls mount on the device. So there must be an fstab entry for
the devices that is mountable by the user. 

A generic way to automagically add new devices to fstab is in gvm's
upstream TODO. Although it's a little out of gvm's scope imho.

> Of course, this is a shot in the dark and you may very well be fine WRT
> /etc/fstab, dunno.

He didn't get that far, but that could be his next problem :)

  Sjoerd
-- 
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which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.



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