Re: Automounter in KDE
> 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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