writeprotection of unmounted mountpoints automaitcally - possible??

[Alexander Raab]

Michael A. Peters wrote:

> On 01/14/2005 12:30:29 AM, Alexander Raab wrote:
>
>> Hi, all.
>> Is there a possibility to set the permissons of ummounted 
>> mountpoints  to writeprotected?
>> I am coping files very often without checking if a usb-drive is  
>> really mounted.
>
>
> In fc3 the mounting of the drive should be handled by hal, in which  
> case the mount point would be created when needed, and otherwise give  
> you a "directory don't exist, dude" type of error.
>
> In fc1/2 (and with 3) you can do a similar things using autofs.
>
> I'm not *positive* that hal removes the /media mountpoint when the  
> drive is unmounted, it doesn't with cd/dvd - but it should then still  
> give you a permission denied error.
>
I'm using FC3 and I can write to cd, dvd, floppy & usb mountpoints that 
are existing but not mounted. KDE checks the mountpoint definied in 
fstab and mtab.
So if I poweron the usb-harddisk a new mountpoint is created, but not 
automatically mounted.
Sometimes I forget that I've umounted the drive again, but still powered 
and so I copy my files again into local harddisk and today "/" has 3GB 
more then normally.

Alex