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From: Ryan Sims <rwsims@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best method for automounting...
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:18:43
Message-Id: 64e8d2f20612011212n6ee570bcpc6b5ed5b70fce861@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best method for automounting... by Neil Bothwick
1 On 12/1/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:50:29 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote:
3 >
4 > > If I'm thread hijacking, let me know, but it seems related to me: what
5 > > is it that mounts things under /media? I seem to have a couple things
6 > > fighting for devices, none of which obey my udev or fstab rules,
7 >
8 > You don't need fstab entries for automounting with pmount.
9 >
10 > > seemingly. I *think* the contenders are udev (which doesn't mount
11 > > anything, but it's not creating the symlinks I want),
12 >
13 > You're right, udev doesn't mount anything, it only creates the device
14 > nodes.
15 >
16 > > gnome-volume-manager, hal and pmount (not sure about that last, I'm
17 > > not at my system now.)
18 >
19 > Those three, along with d-bus, are responsible for your automounting.
20
21 Ok, then I think I have an automounting cage fight. I think it has to
22 do with having KDE and gnome on the same system (don't ask, I'm in the
23 middle of a wm transition). First, I need to learn more about the
24 different systems, and I'll stop commandeering this thread.
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