Stephen Powell wrote: > Tomas Kral wrote: > > Is it possible to make mount aware of UDisks/devices/fd0 and the like? > > Remember, "mount" was here first, and "udisks" is a recent thing. > Under the covers, udisks is no doubt calling mount. The problem > arose because makers of graphical desktop environments, such as > GNOME, wanted devices to mount automatically, "just like Windows". > So they came up with this udisks daemon to try to emulate Windows > behavior.
A good observation. And doing something "just like Windows" should set off alarm bells for anyone who actually realizes this. > And the udisks daemon causes problems for those who are used to > doing manual mounts with the Linux mount command. I'm reasonably > sure that the attitude of the people who support the mount and > umount commands will be, "Hey, our stuff works as designed, just as > it always did. The udisks people broke it, and the udisks people > should fix it." Let me assure you that is what I am thinking. If udisks is broken then udisks should fix it. And certainly we shouldn't go breaking the mount command just for udisks (aka windows behavior). (I know you are not suggesting this.) > The udisks daemon and the udisks command do provide useful function, > but not in a totally forward-compatible way. Sometimes they > interfere with stuff that used to work. An example is apt-cdrom > and aptitude or apt-get when processing mountable media. You > may be able to get the desired behavior by using the "--inhibit-polling" > option of the udisks command in a separate window to temporarily > disable polling by the udisks daemon while you run older software > that is incompatible with the udisks behavior. I find the automounting behavior such as in GNOME to be very, very, very annoying. For example if I insert a disk but then realize that it isn't the right disk then the eject button won't eject it, because GNOME mounted it behind the scenes and now I need to manually unmount it so that I can eject it. That behavior is unacceptable to me. The machine is going to do what I want it to do and not the other way around. Friend George passed this tidbit to me about GNOME but I assume other desktop session managers will be similar. You can disable GNOME from automatically mounting inserted media. Open up the gconf-editor, navigate through to the /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount variable and disable it. I also disable media_automount_open and media_autorun_never too. With that media on my system is no longer getting automatically mounted. Bob
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