Re: df enhancment for removable media

2006-03-27 Thread Paul Eggert
Kevin R. Bulgrien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did anything final every come out of this thread. Not from the coreutils side, no. My assumption is that it's some sort of low-level system bug. But we haven't heard from the low-level guys (whom you probably should be talking to). The simple ls

Re: df enhancment for removable media

2006-03-21 Thread Kevin R. Bulgrien
Did anything final every come out of this thread. I've written a plug-in script for amaroK that a Suse user is complaining about. I never heard of a system unmounting a disk automagically behind the user's back when a mount was explicitly requested. df is reporting USB media to be have 0 bytes

Re: df enhancment for removable media

2006-03-21 Thread Kevin R. Bulgrien
Paul Eggert wrote: Juergen Weigert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless I'm missing something I'd rather not change the default behavor of df, as that would be a compatibility hassle. That is, df shouldn't attempt to mount file systems by default; it should do so only if the user asks, with a

Re: df enhancment for removable media

2006-03-21 Thread Phillip Susi
This sounds like an autofs problem. I'm running ubuntu and hal auto mounts removable media when it is inserted. When it is not mounted, df will not show a line for it at all, since df only shows mounted points. I think what you are seeing is an autofs mount point being mounted there which

Re: df enhancment for removable media

2006-03-21 Thread Kevin R. Bulgrien
Phillip Susi wrote: This sounds like an autofs problem. I'm running ubuntu and hal auto mounts removable media when it is inserted. When it is not mounted, df will not show a line for it at all, since df only shows mounted points. I think what you are seeing is an autofs mount point being

Re: df enhancment for removable media

2005-09-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Juergen Weigert on 9/20/2005 2:54 PM: Wouldn't open() suffice? That would be simpler. I chose opendir(), because I am not sure if all systems allow open() on a directory node. Otherwise I'd also favour open(), it has no issue with

Re: df enhancment for removable media

2005-09-21 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
Sure. Is it sufficient to abondon copyright, Nope - FSF requires assignment of copyright, not abandonment. This is not true. But one must do so in writting (i.e. signing a copyright disclaimer, which more or less puts the changes/program into the Public Domain).

Re: df enhancment for removable media

2005-09-21 Thread Paul Eggert
Juergen Weigert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless I'm missing something I'd rather not change the default behavor of df, as that would be a compatibility hassle. That is, df shouldn't attempt to mount file systems by default; it should do so only if the user asks, with a new option. These

Re: df enhancment for removable media

2005-09-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Juergen Weigert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a recent SUSE Linux df became unreliable for e.g. USB-drives. This is because hald automatically mounts and unmounts such drives as they are accessed. Usually I get something like: $ df /media/USB_DISK Filesystem 1K-blocks Used

Re: df enhancment for removable media

2005-09-20 Thread Juergen Weigert
On Sep 20, 05 13:12:46 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: Juergen Weigert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a recent SUSE Linux df became unreliable for e.g. USB-drives. This is because hald automatically mounts and unmounts such drives as they are accessed. Usually I get something like: $ df

df enhancment for removable media

2005-09-19 Thread Juergen Weigert
Hi coreutils people! On a recent SUSE Linux df became unreliable for e.g. USB-drives. This is because hald automatically mounts and unmounts such drives as they are accessed. Usually I get something like: $ df /media/USB_DISK Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on