Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-volume-manager

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 02:45 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 00:59, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 20:52 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote:
> > > On Thursday 09 February 2006 06:38, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > > > This doesn't seem to be the right way to go, as I can mount the drive
> > > > _without_ nls_utf8, but gnome-volume-manager can't...
> > >
> > > I *think* gvm uses fstab to override defaults.
> > > You can try to add an entry for your usb device to /etc/fstab
> > >
> > > /dev/sdd1	/gvm/mountpoint	vfat	noauto,user,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859
> > >-1	0 0
> >
> > could do, but I have multiple drives (media readers, external hd's, etc)
> > so I can't do this for all of them, especially when I plug them in
> > random orders.  And I don't want to play with udev (just yet :)
> 
> udev is great for this.

I know, but look at the length of your udev howto - It doesn't compare
to gvm, which should do it as simply as emerge then plug-in.  Especially
if I'm setting up multiple machines, for any arbitrary usb-disk - what
then? udev rules can't help me.

thanks anyway :)
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