Am Dienstag, 9. August 2005 20.45 schrieb Tony Godshall: ... > How about mount-on-demand? ... > I find it best to mount writable removables with -o sync. > That way apps finish saving when they appear to finish saving, > which limits damage by novice users and dont-care-about-the- > technical-details users and old-hand-who-just-forgot users. > > The union of the above sets of users, oddly, appears to encompass > the majority of the population (;-)).
It certainly includes me. I am rather confused about the apparently happening transition from manual mounting to automounting in Linux. I would like to have a system where either everything is mounted and umounted manually or everything is automatically and *reliably* mounted and umounted (like the old Macintosh System with SCSI). I'm using Sarge and it doesn't automatically mount USB devices when you plug them in and I can manually mount some devices, but not others (I would happily enrole in any "I hate USB" club). I've tried SuSE 9.1: this is dreadful, automatically but unreliably mounting stuff unter strange names and leaving old zombie folders about in /mnt. This has been a long thread which has left me none the wiser. Could somebody sum up the present conclusions or point to an easy-to-understand resource on present KDE, Debian or Linux mounting philosophy? Theo Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]