Re: [PATCH] computer:/// should display all drives, not only user-visible ones



Le mercredi 07 juin 2006 à 08:58 +0200, Alexander Larsson a écrit :
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 17:58 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> > So what am I trying to say? I'm trying to say it makes sense to show all
> > drives and their mountable file systems notwithstanding the user might
> > be allowed to access them. Because if they're not privileged they should
> > at least get a chance to see the drive is there (otherwise you get "My
> > drive didn't show up! Is the computer broken?") along with an
> > explanation why they can't access it maybe even with a possibility to
> > auth for access.
> 
> I don't really follow your reasoning fully. I agree that users want to
> see their OSX and/or windows mounts from linux, but I think you
> over-empasize the "single user, dual boot, home desktop" usecase. In the
> case of more traditional sysadmined unix setups (at universities and
> whatnot) you'll have a bunch of bizzare mountpoints (nfs mounts, autofs
> mounts, tmpfs, /usr, /home, extra drives/partitions, etc). 
> 
> If we were to show all these, then I think things would look pretty
> confusing. I really think we need to hide a bunch of mountpoints. Some
> mountpoints can probably be hardcoded
> (like /proc, /tmp/, /home, /opt/*, /usr, and /boot), but we can never
> think of all possibilities, so we should probably have a way to mark
> them.
> 

We should only display "/media/*" and "/mnt/*"

Xavier.

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