Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media
On 20100327_003115, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 26.03.2010 22:31, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and
> > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available
> > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not
> > Squeeze, at least not for me.
> >
> > Googling indicates this is a known issue, but seems to be ignored as
> > being somehow uninteresting to GUI users, or something. I can't find
> > anything that is Debian specific on this.
>
> In Sid/Squeeze, gnome-volume-manager no longer handles automounting of removable
> drives. That is directly managed within nautilus/gvfs nowadays.
> You can configure this settings in nautilus: Edit->Preferences->Media.
>
> See also the changelog of gnome-volume-manager.
>
> The main purpose of g-v-m in sid/squeeze remains to handle special cases like
> handling webcam plugin events and stuff.
Was gvm ever involved in checking the number of times a volume has been mounted
and running e2fsck as needed? What software is now (in squeeze) responsible for
doing this check?
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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