supermount or equiv?

[DAVID BALAZIC]

"Neal D. Becker" <nbecker at hns.com> wrote :

>On Thursday 23 October 2003 07:08 am, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:
>> "Noah Silva [Mailing list]" <nsilva-list at aoi.atari-source.com> wrote :
>> >> >> >> > Is there any support for automatically mounting a removable
>> >> >> >> > device, e.g., cdrom, when media is inserted?
>> >
>> >MagicDev.  Comes with redhat, turned on by deafult, and mostly works.
>>
>> Mostly :-)
>>
>> >> >> Why do you want this ?
>> >> >
>> >> >So I can tell my newbie friend and he can stop using windoze.
>> >>
>> >> Instead of mounting on insert, I use mounitng on use.
>> >> I use the automounter to do that.
>> >
>> >Kind of hard to have things like auto-run then.
>>
>> He did not say he wants auto-run.
>> auto-run sux :-)
>>
>> >> No buggy demon running around(magicdev), wasting RAM and doing
>> >> strange things to the hardware. It just works(TM).
>> >
>> >Well thi sis confusing an idea with implementation.  If it doesn't work,
>> >it should be fixed, not trashed.
>>
>> Ni it isn't. He asked for an implementation of an idea
>> and I presented a good(IMHO) implementation.
>>
>> Why try to fix magicdev, when automount already works ?
>
>2 problems with automount: it's not automatically setup for users during 
>install, so newbie users ask how to set it up, and you tell them to edit some 
>config files.  Blank stares.

RFE ? :-)

>Next problem is, it unmounts when it feels like it.

It unmounts after the specified period of non-usage.

>  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 )


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