Re: UUID vs /dev
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P Kapat wrote:
> Might be a little OT, but here is the question: Suppose I plugin an
> USB drive (small pendrives, or may be a big backup external disk), KDE
> pops up a box to choose the action to mount/cancel the new drive. What
> if I don't want to mount it this way (why? i'll explain later **). I
> want to go back to CLI and use
> $ sudo mount /dev/sdc /media/sdc (*** Why use sudo?)
> Now, I know this is going to be /dev/sdc (I already have a backup
> drive connected, so sdb is used up). So what UUID do I use form a
> terminal? Things get a little complicated when you add those, 10-in-1
> card readers.. They become, sdc{1-4}, or something like that.
>
> There should be an easy way (terminal based, easy need not always mean
> GUI based) way to discover new added hardware and the user be able to
> use it without resorting to graphical iterfaces.
>
> (** Why I prefer not using KDE's pop up to mount/umount? Ans: Since I
> use Sid, things not quite perfect. Once mounted, I browse the disk
> with konqueror. After this I cannot Unmount from konqueror: Device
> Busy !!! I have to kill ALL the konqueror related process and only
> then the device is free. Fire up konqueror again and then Unmount it.
> Hence, the CLI prefereance.)
>
> (*** use sudo coz, if a device is not specified in fstab, user cannot
> mount it!)
>
I can tell you how I do it. If I don't want a USB drive mounted, then I
click the do nothing button and kde just puts a device icon on my
desktop so if I want to later mount it, all I have to do is just right
click on that icon and say mount. When I am done, I can unmount it, and
if I unplug it, the icon disappears. Quite simple.
Now of course I have modified kde's settings a bit to do this, but that
is simple to do through kcontrol. Desktop > Behavior > Device Icons
Joe
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