Re: Advocacy report [part 2]

["James M. Cape" <jcape jcinteractive com>]

Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> Paul wrote:
> 
> > . mounting/unmounting - yes this old chestnut is still with us. In a way
> > the automounting on double click of the floppy icon makes this worse
> > because users are unaware that they've even mounted the floppy so don't
> > relaise they have to unmount it after use. I've had a little play with
> > autofs but so far have been unable to make it work. Any tips or advice
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > I did wonder if it would be possible for gmc to unount the drive as soon
> > as the last window on the floppy was closed?
> 
> psst wrote some time ago how to achieve this, basically it depensds on
> the autofs Linux automounter, he suggested putting on /etc:
> 
> /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.misc
> 
> In auto.master, you put:
> /mnt/misc /etc/auto.auto -o codepage=850 --timeout=1
> 
> This means "use /mnt/misc for automatically mounting devices, and
> after 1 second of innactivity, unmount the device".
> 
> Then in auto.misc, you put:
> 
> cd      -fstype=iso9660,user,ro,unhide  ; this is /dev/cdrom
> floppy  -fstype=vfat,user               ; this is the floppy device
> 
> Then you use a auto-link setup (documentation is in the mc distro as
> the file README.desktop), so that you create those symlinks in the
> desktop to those directories.  That will get you automounting for
> free.
> 
> I think this is worth pursuing.
> 
> btw, your document is very good.  Would you like to assemble all of
> your hints in a "GNOME Administrators Handbook" of some sort, it seems
> like you have done a great job, and keeping these details documented
> seems like a very good idea.
> 
> best wishes,
> Miguel.

Me personally, I use /mnt/local and auto.local for local devices, and
/mnt/servername for automounted network shares.

    Jim Cape
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