On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 04:51, C. Hurschler wrote: > Kanotix mounts and places links to USB devices on the KDE desktop > just as one would expect, so it is possible (why shouldn't it be?). > When the device is removed the link dissapears from the desktop. I > don't know what packages or scripts or whatever are used to achieve > this.
This, apparently:
http://wiki.kanotix.net/CoMa.php?CoMa=usb-storage
Note the comment:
The script mounts every (useful) partition of your device and
creates icons on your KDE desktop. If you pull the stick (or
camera) the device is unmounted with "umount -l" ("lazy", because
the device is already pulled) and the icon disappears.
*Don't forget to do a sync before (or right mouseclick on the icon
-> action -> save changes)!*
I wonder how well-documented that is in the Kanotix distribution,
because I saw several posts on the Kanotix forums:
http://forum.kanotix.net/
which appeared to be result of users being unaware of their hardware's
missing telepathy circuitry.
A couple of posters here too seem to be overlooking that simple fact
that you can *never* get the advantages of buffered I/O (speed and
extended hardware life) *and* expect the convenience of yanking
rw-enabled drives out at your leisure without potentially incurring
data loss. That's why working with floppy disks is generally somewhat
faster under most Linux distributions than under MS Windows, but
requiring manual unmounting.
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