Brendan wrote:
On Sunday 05 February 2006 18:13, Marc Wilson wrote:IMHO automount is an incredibly broken behavior. Gnome users swear that it's desirable, though. Your mileage may vary.Why do you think that?
I have a system with a fresh Debian install with KDE. It wants to automount things. I'm hoping I can correct this behaviour. Here are the problems that I am having:
Data CDs will automount, but sometimes take so long to do so that I click on the icon again. I then end up with about a dozen konqueror windows open on the CD's directory. Then, the CD WILL NOT unmount. If I try to manually unmount it I get an error saying only root can do that. OK, I su to root and try again. Then it insists that the CD is busy. There is nothing using the CD and I HAVE NOT cd'd to /cdrom. The only way to unmount and eject the CD is to 'killall kdeinit'.
I can read floppies, OK, but kfloppy does not appear to want to format a floppy. It just sits there, locked up, for a minute, or more, saying that 0% is done. Then it just ungrays itself, but does nothing. I formatted a floppy manually weith the default msdos fs and KDE would not mount it. I reformatted with ext2 and KDE mounted it with no problems.
Is it possible to tell KDE NOT to automount anything? I am quite happy with commandline mount and umount commands. They just work and I know the state of my filesystems. I use fvwm on my own box, but this one will be for my 5 year old daughter, and since it came with KDE, I thought that it would be easier for her if I just left it that way and put icons on the desktop for those programs that I want her to have easy access to. There will be no need for removable devices on a regular basis, and if there is I can mount it myself, as needed.
-- Marc Shapiro