> 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? I think developers from kernel.org not really support the idea of automounting and they definitely not support the unplugging / hardware eject of removable media thingies without umounting them.
------- Original message ------- From: Theo Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Automounter in KDE Date: 11 Август 2005 09:51 > 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