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On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Danny wrote: > Which distro and window manager are you using? I recently switched to Gentoo > and noticed they've made a push for mounting via ivman/pmount for userspace > mounting. This is in constrast to Gnome's own internal device management > layer 'gnome-volume-manager'. I don't know if KDE does anything special for > mounting. I happen to be playing in the CentOS/RedHat 5 worlds. I'm taking the position that there is no window manager (i.e. init 3 aka tty mode). Thus, the need to learn the command-line answer to mounting resources. Thanks. Scott > > -Danny > > Quoting Scott Ehrlich <scott-DPNOqEs/LNQ at public.gmane.org>: > >> I insert a CD, DVD, or USB stick into a system. It doesn't mount. I >> use the window manager to visit my Computer and double-click the device >> (CD or USB drive). Suddenly, the device mounts. >> >> What process is permitting that to happen? I tried some googling, but >> can't seem to capture the right words or contexts for appropriate hits. >> I thought it might be autofs - I tried to stop/start it, but it didn't >> do anything. >> >> It would obviously be nice to know for init 3 (or simply non X) >> sessions when I insert media and want to access it. I don't want to >> have to visit /var/log/messages each time, either, unless that's the >> only way to do it, to see the device it is seen as and mount it. If >> that's the only way, then so be it. >> >> Thanks for your answers/insights. >> >> Scott >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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