--- In [email protected], Robert C Wittig
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First, auto-mounting removable disks is a bad idea, because there will
> be nothing to mount, when the drive is empty.
>
> Second, you can save a lot of time by (working as root) you modify the
> /etc/fstab file. Check the man page for fstab.
OK, I RTF man page ;) and examined the fstab file. The latter
presented an interesting solution. The CDROM is mounted only when it
has a disk in, and may be of any fs -- I know it auto-recognizes
msdos/fat volumes and ext*! This would appear to be a good model to
use. The fstab entry for my CDROM reads:
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto
pamconsole,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
So, I copied and pasted the line, then modified to it read:
/dev/sda4 /media/zip100 <remainder unchanged>
The ZIP drive is jumpered to read as device 4. After creating
/media/zip100, I mounted it from a term window.
Result? An icon for it appeared on my GUI desktop, which seems to be
what Fedora uses the /media directory for. Using the GUI context
menu, I selected "eject volume". It unmounted AND AUTO-EJECTED
sucessfully -- but threw up an error message that it "couldn't eject".
I don't understand the error, it succeeded!
The whole fscontext= specification is arcane to me, but it seems to
have worked!
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>
> The fact that you asked specific, well-described questions, in an
> understandable format, was a plus, as was the fact that you had done
> some preparatory homework, checking the man pages (Google is pretty
> useful, too).
>
> You might want to consider putting a more specific entry in the
> 'Subject' line, in the future. When busy, some readers will just gloss
> over posts with what appear to be 'conversational' (as opposed to
> technical) 'Subject' lines.
>
Thanks for the advice -- the netiquette parts as well as the technical
bits. You got me just enough info to solve it.
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