On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Theo Schmidt wrote: > 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 use mtools for USB storage devices. No mounting/unmounting is needed at all with this approach, and it is robust against sudden removal of the media. In my ~/.mtoolsrc: # External USB floppy drive a: file="/dev/sda" # USB Pendrive drive u: file="/dev/sda1" Then I can use "mdir a:", "mcopy file u:", etc, in the shell. In KDE, I can use the "floppy:/" ioslave to access these. -- -| Bob Hauck -| A proud member of the reality-based community. -| http://www.haucks.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]