Re: mounting local partitions

[MArk Finlay <sisob eircom net>]

Ahh, yeah - now i see what you mean

I was just trying to work it out in my head. 

thanks

On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 23:17, Owen Taylor wrote:
> MArk Finlay <sisob eircom net> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:03, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > > MArk Finlay <sisob eircom net> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Simple question:
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone actually use nautilus to mount user mountable partitions on
> > > > local hard drives? 
> > > > 
> > > > Is it really a useful feature to have?
> > > > 
> > > > I never use it and and find it hard to imagine a use for it. It makes
> > > > sense on BeOS when you are running as root and nothing is mounted by
> > > > default, but not really on linux. To me it just complicates nautilus'
> > > > interaction with 'real' removable media.
> > > 
> > > Are you sure you aren't seeing the functionality there to handle 
> > > floppies?  (You can't do of auto-mounting of floppies, because
> > > there is no reasonable media detection for PC floppy hardware)
> > 
> > 
> > no, i'm talking about when you specify the user option for a partition
> > in /etc/fstab
> 
> Yes, but that's the typical way a floppy looks in /etc/fstab. 
> (On Red Hat Linux, it will show up as 'owner', but that's a recent improvement)
> 
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 
> 
> On most Linux systems would look like:
> 
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,user 0 0 
> 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
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