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For many weeks I've been looking for a way to add the 'noatime' |
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and 'nodiratime' flags for drives that are automounted in gnome. |
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Sifting through the mountains of <mis>information about how hal, |
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hotplug, udev, and gnome interact was painful, but I finally |
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stumbled across a working method on the LinuxFromScratch website. |
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In the good-ole days (several months ago) the way to do it would |
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have been to put a customized fdi file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/. |
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More recently hal has pushed that task up to the 'desktop' layer, |
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e.g. gnome, kde, kfce, etc. I suppose that's because such a |
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preference should be left up to the user instead of the sysadmin, |
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but I can only speculate about what motivates the hal daemon. |
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In gnome, the way to do it is to use the gconf editor (open the |
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'Configuration Editor' in the Applications::System-Tools drop- |
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down menu). |
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Below the root entry, you'll see 'apps', 'desktop', 'schemas', |
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and 'system'. Expand 'system' and then 'storage' below that, |
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and finally 'default_options' below that. |
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You should see a list of filesystem types, like iso9660, ntfs, |
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and so on. Each filesystem type has a 'mount_options' key that |
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you can edit by double-clicking on it. |
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Thus, each filesystem type has its own custom mount options -- |
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but what happened to ext2? I've reformatted some of my USB |
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sticks from vfat to ext2, and I'd like to customized the mount |
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options for them too. |
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LinuxFromScratch to the rescue! They point out that the gconf |
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editor can't edit everything that appears in the gnome 'registry' |
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but there is a command-line tool 'gconftool-2' that can. |
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The way to customize the default mount options for ext2 drives |
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is to do this from a command prompt: |
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gconftool-2 --type list --list-type=string \ |
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--set /system/storage/default_options/ext2/mount_options \ |
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"[noatime,nodiratime]" |
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See how simple and intuitive once you have an example staring |
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you in the face? Dunno why I didn't just try that in the first |
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place :o/ |
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Lest you kde fans sneer at us gnome gnerds, see if you can do |
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the same thing using the tools that kde provides you! |
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Does kde allow you to automount USB sticks and external hard |
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drives? And customize the mount options? |
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