Re: mounting/unmounting devices for newbies

[Michael Vanecek <mike mjv com>]

There is work continuing in that realm. I could've sworn I've seen an
automounter app in one of my bins. At least a few Window Maker dock-apps
are geared toward easily mounting and unmounting disks, and the last
GNOME I used had a panel-app you could use to mount/umount your drives.
However, the fact we are on PC's and using those drives, auto-detection
can be challenging. Macintoshes have a different floppy drive setup that
PC's could learn from, but that's unlikely, so the manual mount/unmount
will continue to be the norm, be it from the commandline, a GNOME Panel
app or a Dock-App. Actually, once you've done it a few times, other than
not being as convenient as simply popping in a disk and yanking it out,
the mount/umount procedure really isn't too much trouble. If the fs is
pretty much the same, you could write a couple of scripts for each
removeable device and run it to quickly mount/umount a drive, but you'd
only be saving a few keystrokes at best...

Mike

Ben Frantzdale wrote:
> 
> what with mounting/unmounting drives, I am wondering how people expect
> newbies to use removeable disks? As I see it, this is the major reason
> that my mom couldn't use Gnome/Linux. I think that for most things,
> window's way of dealing with disks makes a lot of sense if you don't
> understand what's going on underneith. To the user, the fact that the
> floppy/zip/cd is in the drive should mean that the computer sees it.
> 
> with things like automount and "rescan mountable devices" it looks as
> though things arn't that easy yet.
> 
> comments?
> 
> --ben
> 
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