From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:10:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803052010.00973.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3951a2200803050827t60245483k1ffffae0b8f6205a@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I'm using GNOME on gentoo and I like the behavior where usb drives
> will pop up a nautilus window
> on plugin.
>
> I always expected this behavior on CDs as well, but for some reason,
> I only noticed today
> (after quite a while of using, since I haven't plugged in a CD for
> quite a while) that it doesn't
> work.
I believe that such things are detected by hal and the actual mount is
done by gnome-volume-manager which then launches nautilus.
/etc/fstab is not involved at all in this.
It seems to be that Gnome at least wants you to use fstab for permanent
mounts only, and bits of Gnome for everything else
--
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-05 16:27 [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error Mark David Dumlao
2008-03-05 16:43 ` cypherstrong
2008-03-05 17:22 ` Mark David Dumlao
2008-03-05 18:10 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-03-05 21:56 ` Strong Cypher
2008-05-09 15:53 ` Wolf Canis
2008-05-09 23:31 ` Ian Hilt
2008-05-10 8:07 ` Wolf Canis
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