6:28 p.m.
Is there any way I can configure Fedora 10 to mount not all but certain hard
drives automatically?
There must a config file somewhere.
Thank you for your input in advance.
2:45 p.m.
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 16:51 -0400, Ryan Lynch wrote:
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 16:41, Aaron Konstam
<akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 12:28 -0500, Rod Rook wrote:
>> Is there any way I can configure Fedora 10 to mount not all but
>> certain hard drives automatically?
>>
>> There must a config file somewhere.
>>
>> Thank you for your input in advance.
> Is this not what fstab allows you to do?
Aaron,
The OP mentioned "automount" in the subject line. I assume that he
wants to use the automounter because he doesn't want to have to create
a separate /etc/fstab entry for every single current and future
device. As far as I know, '/etc/fstab' can't help with this.
Does that sound right, Rod?
As for how to actually configure the automounter: No idea, sorry.
-Ryan
You may be right. He is not clear in his original message,
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12:57 a.m.
2009/10/25 Rod Rook <rod.rook(a)gmail.com>:
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Ryan Lynch <ryan.b.lynch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 16:41, Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 12:28 -0500, Rod Rook wrote:
> >> Is there any way I can configure Fedora 10 to mount not all but
> >> certain hard drives automatically?
> >>
> >> There must a config file somewhere.
> >>
> >> Thank you for your input in advance.
> > Is this not what fstab allows you to do?
>
> Aaron,
>
> The OP mentioned "automount" in the subject line. I assume that he
> wants to use the automounter because he doesn't want to have to create
> a separate /etc/fstab entry for every single current and future
> device. As far as I know, '/etc/fstab' can't help with this.
>
> Does that sound right, Rod?
>
> As for how to actually configure the automounter: No idea, sorry.
>
> -Ryan
>
Yes, you are right, Ryan.
If I knew the name of the program that auto-mounts the hard drives, I could
do some research on that.
Do you have any idea?
I think HAL does the auto-mounting although there are several
front-ends like gnome-mount/gnome-umount for Gnome or thunar-volman
for XFCE, ( I also like gigolo in XFCE, very useful for remote
folders) I haven't fooled around with any of these though. I have used
all of them just with the default configurations and most of the time
they have "just worked" (TM).
If you intend to poke around with HAL, you might want to also look
into Device-Kit ( I maybe wrong about the name, but its something
similar) as this is going to replace HAL F-12 onwards.
GL
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1:52 a.m.
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:41:40 -0500
Rod Rook wrote:
HAL?
I understand that one can configure autofs by modifying /etc/auto.master.
The problem is too many different things described by the word
"automounting".
The HAL and DeviceKit-disks stuff I'm talking about is for things
like nautilus popping up the disk on your desktop when you plug it in.
The other thing named automounter is for making mounts happen the
first time you actually reference the file (good for things like
NIS users home directories).
Depends on which kind of auto mounting you want to control as
to which obscure file full of undocumented gibberish you
need to edit :-).
1:41 a.m.
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley(a)att.net> wrote:
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:57:59 -0700
suvayu ali wrote:
> If you intend to poke around with HAL, you might want to also look
> into Device-Kit ( I maybe wrong about the name, but its something
> similar) as this is going to replace HAL F-12 onwards.
Yep, before F12 I keep my usb backup drive from showing up in gnome
sessions via:
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-stop-hal-stop.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="volume.label" string="BACKUP">
<merge key="volume.ignore"
type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
For F12 and beyond (until they invent yet another scheme) I use:
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-zzz-local.rules
ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}=="BACKUP", ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"
I've found something about the automount daemon, autofs. Can this work with
HAL?
I understand that one can configure autofs by modifying /etc/auto.master.
1:18 a.m.
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:57:59 -0700
suvayu ali wrote:
If you intend to poke around with HAL, you might want to also look
into Device-Kit ( I maybe wrong about the name, but its something
similar) as this is going to replace HAL F-12 onwards.
Yep, before F12 I keep my usb backup drive from showing up in gnome
sessions via:
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-stop-hal-stop.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="volume.label" string="BACKUP">
<merge key="volume.ignore"
type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
For F12 and beyond (until they invent yet another scheme) I use:
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-zzz-local.rules
ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}=="BACKUP", ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"
12:54 a.m.
Rod Rook wrote:
If I knew the name of the program that auto-mounts the hard drives, I
could do some research on that.
Do you have any idea?
Depending on what you mean by automounting, it can be either HAL or
automount. You probably want automount - it lets ou set up mount
points that will mount a file system when you go to access them. For
example, if you have a bunch of CD/DVD images that you want to be
able to access, but you do not want to tie up that many loopback
mounts all the time, you can set up automount to loop mount the
image when you go to access it. You can do the same things with hard
drive partitions, Samba shares, NFS mounts, etc.
Mikkel
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12:45 a.m.
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Ryan Lynch <ryan.b.lynch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 16:41, Aaron Konstam
<akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 12:28 -0500, Rod Rook wrote:
>> Is there any way I can configure Fedora 10 to mount not all but
>> certain hard drives automatically?
>>
>> There must a config file somewhere.
>>
>> Thank you for your input in advance.
> Is this not what fstab allows you to do?
Aaron,
The OP mentioned "automount" in the subject line. I assume that he
wants to use the automounter because he doesn't want to have to create
a separate /etc/fstab entry for every single current and future
device. As far as I know, '/etc/fstab' can't help with this.
Does that sound right, Rod?
As for how to actually configure the automounter: No idea, sorry.
-Ryan
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Yes, you are right, Ryan.
If I knew the name of the program that auto-mounts the hard drives, I could
do some research on that.
Do you have any idea?
9:51 p.m.
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 16:41, Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 12:28 -0500, Rod Rook wrote:
> Is there any way I can configure Fedora 10 to mount not all but
> certain hard drives automatically?
>
> There must a config file somewhere.
>
> Thank you for your input in advance.
Is this not what fstab allows you to do?
Aaron,
The OP mentioned "automount" in the subject line. I assume that he
wants to use the automounter because he doesn't want to have to create
a separate /etc/fstab entry for every single current and future
device. As far as I know, '/etc/fstab' can't help with this.
Does that sound right, Rod?
As for how to actually configure the automounter: No idea, sorry.
-Ryan
9:41 p.m.
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 12:28 -0500, Rod Rook wrote:
Is there any way I can configure Fedora 10 to mount not all but
certain hard drives automatically?
There must a config file somewhere.
Thank you for your input in advance.
Is this not what fstab allows you to do?
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