Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:35:18PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100326_164643, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2010-03-26 16:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > > >I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > >just today noticed that "Removab

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:57:08 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: > But the actual check is done by *.fsck, which is not invoked by mount, > but by the initscript that invokes mount (if everything is ok). I wonder > if mount even contains the code to do filesystem checking at all[1]. > > What I'm

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,27.Mar.10, 08:52:56, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:06:58 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > > If fstab's 6th column is 0, the mount count is not checked. > > Of course, yes! I forgot about that. In the environment that I work in, > dynamic mounts of disk partitions are rare. Th

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:06:58 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > If fstab's 6th column is 0, the mount count is not checked. Of course, yes! I forgot about that. In the environment that I work in, dynamic mounts of disk partitions are rare. They are almost always mounted at boot time due to an entry in

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-27 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:46:59PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100326_151046, Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > > just today noticed

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Tom H
>> If fstab's 6th column is 0, the mount count is not checked. > For the USB drives in question, there is no entry in /etc/fstab. Exactly! Since it is not in fstab, its mount count increments past the maximum mount count without an fsck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100327_000658, Tom H wrote: > >> > Was gvm ever involved in checking the number of times a volume has been > >> > mounted > >> > and running e2fsck as needed? What software is now (in squeeze) > >> > responsible for > >> > doing this check? > > >> No, that is a property of the file system i

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Tom H
>> > Was gvm ever involved in checking the number of times a volume has been >> > mounted >> > and running e2fsck as needed? What software is now (in squeeze) >> > responsible for >> > doing this check? >> No, that is a property of the file system itself. > I think that the fs does the incremen

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
I started a run of e2fsck on one of my USB drives and got the following: r...@big:~# e2fsck /dev/sdb1 e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010) WDP-5 has been mounted 58 times without being checked, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Error reading block 119439482 (Attempt to read block fr

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100326_214159, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:28:40 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > Was gvm ever involved in checking the number of times a volume has been > > mounted > > and running e2fsck as needed? What software is now (in squeeze) responsible > > for > > doing

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:28:40 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon wrote: > > Was gvm ever involved in checking the number of times a volume has been > mounted > and running e2fsck as needed? What software is now (in squeeze) responsible > for > doing this check? No, that is a property of the file system

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100327_003115, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 26.03.2010 22:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > > in the Gnome Preference

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Michael Biebl
On 26.03.2010 22:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not > S

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100326_151046, Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > > in t

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100326_164643, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-26 16:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > >I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > >just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > >in the Gnome Preferences menu. I

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-26 16:31, Paul E Condon wrote: I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not Squeeze, at least not fo

Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not Squeeze, at least not for me. Googling indicates this is a known issue,

Re: Gnome desktop icons for mounted removable drives

2009-05-08 Thread Andrew G
Andrew G wrote: > Gnome used to load icons onto the desktop whenever I would insert a > removable media device (e.g. CD or USB stick, etc.). However, for > whatever reason, this no longer happens. Can someone please advise if > this is a bug with Gnome or something for which a hack exists? I've

Gnome desktop icons for mounted removable drives

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew G
Gnome used to load icons onto the desktop whenever I would insert a removable media device (e.g. CD or USB stick, etc.). However, for whatever reason, this no longer happens. Can someone please advise if this is a bug with Gnome or something for which a hack exists? I've searched bug tracker but

"Removable Drives and Media" panel

2009-02-02 Thread Peter Crawford
nge with hot plugging, right?), one > option that I use a lot is mucking around with > /etc/security/group.conf The "Removable Drives and Media" panel, accessed through Settings in the Desktop Menu, has a "Cameras" tab to automate the transfer of pictures from flash st

Re: automounting removable drives on multi-user systems

2008-10-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 22:50:33 +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:37:29AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 09/30/08 10:08, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > >Hi fellow debian-user(s) > > > > > >My problem concerns auto-mounting of removable media on multi-user systems. > > > > > >What

Re: automounting removable drives on multi-user systems

2008-09-30 Thread Hans Ekbrand
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Re: automounting removable drives on multi-user systems

2008-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
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automounting removable drives on multi-user systems

2008-09-30 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hi fellow debian-user(s) My problem concerns auto-mounting of removable media on multi-user systems. What I want is a tool/some scripts that: Whenever a removable media[1] is inserted the user who is owning the active display [2], should automatically get the device mounted and a filebrowser sho

Re: fstab and removable drives

2007-08-28 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 7:18:25 -0700 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My ISP has "improved" my email to the point that I cannot > post to newsgroups at all and even email is a struggle. > > The error message you describe is from fsck, which fails when > trying to check the disconnected drive. The sixth

Removable Drives

1998-09-21 Thread Vincent Murphy
I am looking to buy a high-capacity (>1GB) removable drive. Can anyone confirm whether a 2GB Jaz SCSI drive works with Linux? How about using the parallel port? I would presume that it works over the parallel port using ppa. What about the Syquest 1.5GB drive? Any advice from Debian users of thes