On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 11:56 +1300, Douglas Royds wrote:
> I'm on Debian unstable. I'm not familiar with Ubuntu, so I don't know whether
> it's configured to simply use hotplug, or whether it's using automount. If
> you've got Gnome 2.8 (which I haven't - yet), then it's probably using
> automount.
GNOME 2.8 uses gnome-volume-manager (GVM) toâ wellâ manage volumes.
Automount is not used.
The basic idea is that when a change occurs with a device â such as a
USB drive being plugged in or a CD being changed â the underlying system
(a combination of HAL, udev and Hotplug [1]) fires off a notification
across the new kernel messaging system (D-BUS [2]). GVM listens to the
messages, and when it sees a new volume added to the system it mounts
it. GVM can also fire up programs to do appropriate things, such as suck
images off cameras or play audio CDs.
If you want to alter the behaviour of GVM, either
* Run "gnome-volume-properties", or
* Select Main Menu â Preferences â Removable Storage
[1] Which combine to make: Voltron!
[2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fdbus
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Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
