On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:28:52 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> I have been able to circumvent the problem >> by commenting out the following entries in /etc/fstab and rebooting: >> >> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 >> /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 >> >> Now only root can mount and umount floppies. Since GNOME does not >> run with root privileges, it can't mess me up. > > I've been systematically deleting the emails in this thread unread. I > was about to do the same with this one when I remembered a > Ubuntu-users thread/rant about floppies where the apparent solution > was to keep the above lines in "/etc/fstab" and mount floppies with > "udisks --mount /dev/fdX". Since Ubuntu's based on a mix of testing > and unstable and uses the Debian udisks package without "ubuntufying" > it...
That works, Tom. Thanks! And of course the corresponding udisks --unmount /dev/fdX command unmounts the floppy. It appears that udisks has taken over the mounting and unmounting of removable-media devices just like network manager has taken over network devices. I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/756185743.1198334.1292883195645.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
