On Friday 05 August 2005 21:03, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:20:00PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > > > Good! I'm glad to see things are coming along. I don't regularly > > > use either of the DEs and just use IceWM, so I haven't seen this > > > progression first hand. > > > > Hmm ... If something like this comes along in IceWM, it would be > > really great. I have an old computer setup as a router in my home. I > > am running IceWM on it and have to manually mount stuff like this the > > odd times I have needed to. > > I have not tried this, but from the description, usbmount might fit the > bill. It is supposed to be independent of desktops, so it should work > well. If anyone has tried it, will be nice to get some feedback. > > Description: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices > This package automatically mounts USB mass storage devices (typically > USB pens) when they are plugged in, and unmounts them when they are > removed. The mountpoints (/media/usb[0-7] by default), filesystem types > to consider, and mount options are configurable. When multiple devices > are plugged in, the first available mountpoint is automatically > selected. If the device provides a model name, a symbolic link > /var/run/usbmount/MODELNAME pointing to the mountpoint is automatically > created. > . > The script that does the (un)mounting is called by the udev daemon. > Therefore, USBmount requires a 2.6 (or newer) kernel. > . > USBmount is intended as a lightweight solution which is independent of > a desktop environment. Users which would like an icon to appear when an > USB device is plugged in should use the pmount and hal packages > instead. > . > Homepage: http://usbmount.alioth.debian.org/ > > > What I would like to know is its interaction with hal and > gnome-volume-manager? I have not gotten this to work at all. The mount points are always, ah, unmounted.
> > Regards, -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
