Re: Automounter in KDE

[Theo Schmidt <tschmidt@mus.ch>]

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