Re: Device (un)mount applet

[Bruno Widmann <bruno fw2 fh-sbg ac at>]

On Fri, 22 May 1998, John Ellis wrote:
> Is there any program or function in gnome to easily mount and unmount
> devices such as cd-roms, floppys, Zip disks, etc? 
>
 
We could add this to the new diskusage-applet. So you could right click on
it, and there would be submenu mount, with all the entrys in fstab which
aren't mounted now.

> Is anyone working on such a feature? If not I could start writing
> such a facility myself. My idea is to have a panel applet that could be
> configured to mount a directory (like /mnt/cdrom) using the mount
> command. To keep it simple, an entry must be in /etc/fstab so
> a command such as 'mount /mnt/cdrom' would work. This makes
> it easy to specify which device is controlled by the applet (just
> select properties and type in the mount location). This applet
> would support multiple instances in the panel (one for each device).
> And the Icon would change to reflect the device's mount status.
> 

not bad either ... I haven't looked at the multiple-instances stuff yet,
so i can't comment to much on that. Can you have sepparate config file for
each of the multiple-instances?


> Or perhaps the file manager should contain this functionality.
> 
definitely should, if it doesn't allready.