Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: CD-ROM mounting

[Lindsay Haisley]

Duncan (et al), I _finally_ found a solution (pretty much) to this
problem!  Some inquiries on one of the gentoo forums gave me some clues
for further research and I turned up the following on an openSUSE forum:

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Mounting_to_Static_Mount_Points

It works fine for gnome in Gentoo, and I've seen some comments
indicating that it's also helpful in KDE.

On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 22:26 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com> posted
> 1217715027.11765.5.camel@××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on  Sat, 02 Aug
> 2008 17:10:27 -0500:
>
> > This is a Royal PITA!  We need to have, preferably as an easy to
> > configure option, a consistent, named, filesystem location on which a
> > particular device will mount, identified by the media type ("cdrom") or
> > some other predictable name.  I have a photo cataloging program I wrote
> > which expects to find all photo CDs, which have different names
> > reflecting dates and sequence, mounted at a location which can be
> > specified in its config file.  There are all kinds of applications which
> > expect this!
>
> It's the automount stuff that's breaking.  If I just tell the hal/kde
> popup to ignore the new media, and mount it manually, it works as
> expected (mount still uses fstab, thank goodness).  If I let hal mount
> it, it does so but then I have to figure out where.  So just not using
> hal works in general; it was just the k3b thing that triggered a problem
> here, because in that specific instance, right after a burn when it tries
> to verify, apparently hal interferes, and there isn't a lot I can do to
> avoid it, except doing the verify manually.
>
> That's why I've not experienced serious problems elsewhere, however.  I
> tend to be very suspicious of automounting, etc, and in general don't use
> it, preferring to issue the mount command directly, so I haven't had a
> problem in general, only in that corner-case.

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