Re: gnome-volume-manager doubt

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

On 21 Dec 2007, at 14:26, Leandro Marco wrote:

> 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.

You shouldn't need to list the pendrive in fstab - hal and g-v-m for  
GNOME users (or pmount for non-GNOME users) should do everything you  
need it to without using fstab static configuration.

Sorry if I'm still missing your point.

> 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 :-)
> > >
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