[gvfs/wip/udisks2] Clarify a couple of things in the what-is-shown.txt doc
- From: David Zeuthen <davidz src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gvfs/wip/udisks2] Clarify a couple of things in the what-is-shown.txt doc
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:23:25 +0000 (UTC)
commit 861bfc5b900c620e85752f047bc76739c1f8af9c
Author: David Zeuthen <davidz redhat com>
Date: Wed Jan 18 15:23:05 2012 -0500
Clarify a couple of things in the what-is-shown.txt doc
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz redhat com>
monitor/udisks2/what-is-shown.txt | 29 +++++++++++++----------------
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/monitor/udisks2/what-is-shown.txt b/monitor/udisks2/what-is-shown.txt
index 82aa684..6e39000 100644
--- a/monitor/udisks2/what-is-shown.txt
+++ b/monitor/udisks2/what-is-shown.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
The gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor process is responsible for the disks,
media, mounts and fstab entries shown in the desktop user
interface. In particular, the Desktop Shell (gnome-shell), the Files
-application (nautilus) as well as any other application use the GLib
+application (nautilus) as well as any other application using the GLib
APIs, is using information from this process.
In general, disks or media with mountable filesystems are shown, as
@@ -13,31 +13,28 @@ are fstab entries. These are collectively referred to as "devices" in
the following.
A device is either mounted (in which case its directory is known) or
-it's not. If it's not mounted, then its directory is known only if its
-referenced in the /etc/fstab file. Similarly, the options for a device
-is either the options the device is currently mounted with or, if not
-currently mounted, options from its /etc/fstab if one is available.
+it's not. If the device is not mounted, then its directory is known
+only if it's referenced in the /etc/fstab file. Similarly, the options
+for a device is either the options the device is currently mounted
+with, or if not mounted, the options from its /etc/fstab if any.
If the directory for a device is known and outside /media, $HOME
(typically /home/foo) or $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (typically /run/user/foo)
-then the device is not shown. Additionally, if any of component
-directories starts with a dot ("."), the device is not shown either.
-This policy may be overriden by use of the options comment=gvfs-show
-and comment=gvfs-hide.
+then the device is not shown in the user interface. Additionally, if
+any of component directories in its directory starts with a dot ("."),
+the device is not shown either. This policy may be overriden by use of
+the options comment=gvfs-show and comment=gvfs-hide.
The name and icon to use for a device is chosen according to certain
heuristics - for example, if a device has a filesystem label, it is
used - if not, some other characteristic is used. The options
comment=gvfs-name=<value> and comment=gvfs-icon=<value> can be used to
override this policy with <value> being an URL-encoded string. For
-icons, the Icon Naming Specification
+icons, the Icon Naming Specification is used.
- http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
-
-is used.
-
-Users are advised to use /dev/disk/* symlinks for /etc/fstab entries
-instead of the kernel names sda, sdb and so on.
+Users are advised to use (stable) symlinks in the /dev/disk/ hierarchy
+for /etc/fstab entries instead of the kernel names sda, sdb and so
+on. See udev(7) for more information about this.
The Disks application provides an user interface to easily edit
/etc/fstab entries including these options, see
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