supermount or equiv?

DAVID BALAZIC david.balazic at uni-mb.si
Sat Oct 25 14:14:22 UTC 2003


George Farris <farrisg at mala.bc.ca> wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 08:13, Mark Guzzo wrote:
>> > >  I don't think there is any simple way to unmount
>> > > and eject, is that not true?
>> > 
>> > unmount :
>> >  - wait for timeout or
>> >  - manually umount
>> > 
>> > eject : 
>> >  - push the eject button or
>> >  - use the eject command
>> > 
>> > both can be done from GUI, I guess ( I can't recall doing so lately though )
>> > 
>> 
>> Well, 
>> 
>> I enjoyed the talk about magicdev and autofs so much that I Googled
>> autofs to find out just how to use it. I found some good info, if any
>> one wants it here it is...
>> 
>> http://www.linuxhq.com/lg/issue24/nielsen.html
>> This site has a script that works like a charm! I'll be doing this on my
>> wife's Fedora computer :-)
>> 
>
>I wouldn't suggest it.  This doesn't work with GNOME for example.  It
>probably only works for the command line.  

How do you mean it doesn't work with some program ?
It is a FS driver. It works with every program.
                      
>Linux floppy support for the type of hardware that we have is broken, it
>always has been.  If the floppy didn't have an eject button on it and
>only worked under software control it would be fine.  In the real world,
>however, we have to live with the piece of crap hardware that we have
>and Linux just plain doesn't deal with it.  Why the kernel developers
>can't fix this is beyond me but....

lack of motivation ?
other more interesting things to do ?
<you will hate me for this one>
why don't YOU do it ?
</you>

;-)

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