12:10 a.m.
I have the subdirectories for some Activities installed on my
"permanent" SD card (it's in the "external" slot of my XO-1.5).
Os42 is not mounting (at boot) my "permanent" SD card. I
experimented with removing the SD card's entry from /etc/fstab.
The first time sugar came up (after boot), it did not show the
activities on my SD card in Home View - because that SD card was not
yet mounted at the time sugar started. I did ctl-alt-erase to
restart sugar. Now sugar came up *showing* those activities.
What I believe happened: 1) Because the system did not mount the SD
card, sugar the first time could not "link" to the activities on it.
2) But sugar itself mounted all removable volumes accessible by
the machine, including my SD card. 3) So when sugar started the
second time, those activities could be "linked", and sugar showed them.
My question -- how come Sugar mounts *all* removable volumes ?
mikus
1:48 a.m.
As 1.5 and other portable devices are using SD as their main storage:
What is a removable volume ?
On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
I have the subdirectories for some Activities installed on my
"permanent" SD card (it's in the "external" slot of my XO-1.5).
Os42 is not mounting (at boot) my "permanent" SD card. I
experimented with removing the SD card's entry from /etc/fstab.
The first time sugar came up (after boot), it did not show the
activities on my SD card in Home View - because that SD card was not
yet mounted at the time sugar started. I did ctl-alt-erase to
restart sugar. Now sugar came up *showing* those activities.
What I believe happened: 1) Because the system did not mount the SD
card, sugar the first time could not "link" to the activities on it.
2) But sugar itself mounted all removable volumes accessible by
the machine, including my SD card. 3) So when sugar started the
second time, those activities could be "linked", and sugar showed
them.
Sounds reasonable, given my experience. Sugar is definitely doing
the mounts into /media.
My question -- how come Sugar mounts *all* removable volumes ?
Why not ? It seems reasonable that a user would want to copy something
onto removable media. (BTW, isn't there a more appropriate mailing
list for
Sugar feature discussions, not that we don't miss the occasional one
on devel ?)
Cheers,
wad
5:48 a.m.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:10:42AM -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
The first time sugar came up (after boot), it did not show the
activities on my SD card in Home View - because that SD card was not
yet mounted at the time sugar started.
Well, I guess that might be a flaw. I would have expected the volume to
be mounted by Sugar.
My question -- how come Sugar mounts *all* removable volumes ?
So that when a volume is made available at a hardware level, the user is
able to access it automatically. At least, that's my understanding of
the Sugar design.
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James Cameron
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