Re: gnome-volume-manager doubt

["Leandro Marco" <leandromarco gmail com>]

Hi, I am not sure if you understood what my problem is.

As we use diskless, the boot is from the network. There is only one
fstab config files for all machines. I need to list the pendrive on
it, so that people who don't use X, can mount ir manually.

I want that gvm allows me to umount (using the context menu) even when
the pendrive is listed on fstab.

Tanks

On Dec 19, 2007 1:53 PM, Alex Jones <alex weej com> wrote:
> If you're not using X and GNOME, you won't be able to use g-v-m, as g-
> v-m is a session service (I don't know why either). You can still use
> pmount, though, I think.
>
>
> On 19 Dec 2007, at 14:46, Leandro Marco wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > First of all, i would like to say that I don't know if this is the
> > right place for this question. As I couldn't find a more specific
> > list, I am sending this question here. I am wondering if you could
> > help or point someone that can.
> >
> > I work for a company, and here we use a diskless environment (network
> > boot). People who work here have different levels of computational
> > knowledge. Some people don't use X, and others are people who use
> > windows at their home computers.
> >
> > We use Debian 4.0, and I installed gnome-volume-manager in order to
> > use pen drives automount. Gnome-volume-manager doesn't require that we
> > put the mountpoints entries in etc/fstab; But, if I don't put the
> > entries in fstab the user that don't use X, won't  be able to mount
> > pendrives without root privilegies. If I put the entries in fstab, gvm
> > mount the pendrive, but I can't unmount them by clicking on the
> > unmount option in the context menu. That occurs because i have
> > something like this on fstab:
> >
> > /dev/sda1       /mnt/pensda1 auto        noauto,users,umask=000
> > 0       0
> >
> > When I insert the pendrive, /dev/sda1 is registred on mtab. When I try
> > to unmount by clicking on the unmount option I get this error:
> >
> > "umount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 is not mounted
> > (according to mtab)"
> >
> > I downloaded and read the gvm source and I could fix the problem by
> > changing the umount function so that it obtains, in case of failure,
> > (via hal calls) the mountpoint and them i use this to umount.
> >
> > But, I would like to know if there is another way to fix this, and if
> > there isn't, if this would be accepted as a patch (is there a problem
> > with thsi solution?).
> >
> > Thanks and sorry about the English errors :-)
> >
> > --
> > Leandro
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>



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