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CD/DVD/USB and mounting...



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
>> 
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