Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> writes: [...]
>>From 2000 through 2013 I consistently used "We do it all for you" > distros: Mandrake, Mandriva, and then Ubuntu (later Xubuntu and > Lubuntu). Most of the time, when I plugged in a thumb drive, BANG, its > mounted-self appeared on the desktop (or whatever). That's one of these 'feature' I consistently have serious troubles with understanding why it's considered a feature at all. The last time I 'plugged in a thumb drive', I wanted to replace the Linux system stored on it with a VFAT partition I could put some mp3 into in order to play them with a CD player. This meant I had to delete the existing Linux parition, create a new VFAT paritition, create a VFAT filesystem on that, mount that somewhere, copy the files over, umount/ wait until the data was really copied. "Plug it in and BANG, some piece of obnoxious software mounts it in some idiotic place, say, /dev/dsk/u56yttt6w/lo/behold/foo/bar and I have to get rid of this mount and prevent the software from doing that again before *I* can use *my* thumbdrive" doesn't sound appealing to me. Even if I just want to access the files, how's the computer going to know where I want to mount it this time? _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng