Re: gnome-volume-manager behaviour

[Sebastian Tennant <sebyte smolny plus com>]

Sebastian Tennant <sebyte smolny plus com> wrote:

> I began investigating this because I wanted to know if it was possible
> to tell gvm to only auto-mount a single partition on my firewire
> drive and not all five when I switch it on.  Since then I have observed
> the following broken behaviour in the two simplest cases:
>
> Gnome menu -> Desktop -> Preferences -> Removable Drives and Media
> provides three check boxes:
>
>   Mount removable drives when hotplugged
>   Mount removable media when inserted
>   Browse removable media when inserted
>
> With ALL of these checkboxes UNCHECKED, gnome-volume-manager mounts
> all the partitions on my firewire drive the *first* time I switch it
> on.
>
> With ALL of these checkboxes CHECKED, gnome-volume-manager will ONLY
> mount any of the partitions on my firewire drive the *first* time I
> switch it on.

I may have been premature in this assessment.  I now think checking or
unchecking these checkboxes only takes effect after logging out and
logging in again.  If this is so, I would suggest a dialogue should
make this explicitly clear.

Anyhow, with all of these boxes unchecked, gvm is now behaving as I
would expect, i.e., nothing is being auto-mounted anymore.

sdt