GNOME startup, -before- desktop

[Jud Craft]

I don't think Fedora comes with auto-fs built in, does it?

One feature I essentially need is that all my users are in a
mount-group, so they can all unmount the drive.  Whenever a user logs
in, I need the drive to be automatically unmounted and then
-remounted- as that user.

Doing a simple script that does "umount" followed by "mount"
accomplishes this nicely.  I just need to make the script run before
Nautilus so it doesn't freak out if the XDG Desktop directory changes.

I'm not sure auto-fs can be set to "automatically umount the partition
if a different user is logging in and then remount it as that user."
Similar to gnome-automount, I think it just automatically mounts the
partition once, and leaves it mounted under the original user that
mounted it even across sessions.  That won't work.

Key problem is that a lot of GNOME programs won't work with a FAT32
partition unless it is mounted under the user's name (ex., Trash
functionality, temporary backup files in Text Editor, etc) since FAT32
doesn't have standard Unix permissions, so GNOME's shortcut is to only
allow functionality for the user who mounted it (not even the group,
but the specific user).

That's great for a personal flash drive, but not for a shared system
partition that holds documents or temp files.  I want that to work
automatically across different accounts on my machine, before startup,
without any user action.  So automatically remounting the FAT32
partition under the current user seems like a good idea.



On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Ed Greshko<Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> Jud Craft wrote:
>> It automatically mounts a drive that contains my Desktop directory.
>> Hence, I need it to work before nautilus does.
>>
>> It specifically is a per-user mount, so I can't have it globally
>> automount at computer startup.
>>
>>
> Have you considered using autofs for this?  The automount will only
> happen when directory is accessed.
>
> So, something like this should work....
>
> In auto.master
>
> /misc       /etc/auto.misc
>
> In /etc/auto.misc
>
> Desktop     -fstype=auto      :/dev/sdc2  (or whatever you need)
>
> And in your home directory make Desktop a symbolic link to /misc/Desktop.
>
> There are probably better ways to construct this with autofs....but I'm
> not giving it too much thought....
>
> I've also read where pam can be used for what you want....
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