BTW I haven't tested it with usb devices (actually my usb scanner waren't detected by it), but with removable media ivman work just fine.
------- Original message ------- From: serja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Automounter in KDE Date: 11 Август 2005 16:13 > > This has been a long thread which has left me none the wiser. Could > > somebody sum up the present conclusions or point to an easy-to-understand > > resource on present KDE, Debian or Linux mounting philosophy? > > I think developers from kernel.org not really support the idea of > automounting and they definitely not support the unplugging / hardware > eject of removable media thingies without umounting them. > > ------- Original message ------- > From: Theo Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Automounter in KDE > Date: 11 Август 2005 09:51 > > > Am Dienstag, 9. August 2005 20.45 schrieb Tony Godshall: > > ... > > > > > How about mount-on-demand? > > > > ... > > > > > I find it best to mount writable removables with -o sync. > > > That way apps finish saving when they appear to finish saving, > > > which limits damage by novice users and dont-care-about-the- > > > technical-details users and old-hand-who-just-forgot users. > > > > > > The union of the above sets of users, oddly, appears to encompass > > > the majority of the population (;-)). > > > > It certainly includes me. I am rather confused about the apparently > > happening transition from manual mounting to automounting in Linux. I > > would like to have a system where either everything is mounted and > > umounted manually or everything is automatically and *reliably* mounted > > and umounted (like the old Macintosh System with SCSI). I'm using Sarge > > and it doesn't automatically mount USB devices when you plug them in and > > I can manually mount some devices, but not others (I would happily enrole > > in any "I hate USB" club). I've tried SuSE 9.1: this is dreadful, > > automatically but unreliably mounting stuff unter strange names and > > leaving old zombie folders about in /mnt. > > > > This has been a long thread which has left me none the wiser. Could > > somebody sum up the present conclusions or point to an easy-to-understand > > resource on present KDE, Debian or Linux mounting philosophy? > > > > Theo Schmidt
