hal auto mount

hi ,

i do blfs :

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...neral/hal.html

with udev-097,hal-0.5.7,dbus-0.62,xfce-4.4beta2

and all is good but when i insert cdrom i so a cdrom icon in desktop

but not mounted so i should click to icon to mount the cdrom

and when i click it said "can't mount because there is no /media/hdc

in your fstab or mtab"

and when i add hdc in my fstab it mount but blfs said:

Note

HAL will ignore any devices listed in /etc/fstab for the purpose of automounting. You must remove any listings for devices that you would like automounted such as CD-ROMs or USB keys.

so what i can do to auto mount .


thank you .

Originally Posted by classic hi , i do blfs : http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...neral/hal.html with udev-097,hal-0.5.7,dbus-0.62,xfce-4.4beta2 and all is good but when i insert cdrom i so a cdrom icon in desktop but not mounted so i should click to icon to mount the cdrom and when i click it said "can't mount because there is no /media/hdc in your fstab or mtab" and when i add hdc in my fstab it mount but blfs said: Note HAL will ignore any devices listed in /etc/fstab for the purpose of automounting. You must remove any listings for devices that you would like automounted such as CD-ROMs or USB keys. so what i can do to auto mount . thank you .

Do you have ivman installed?

hi,

no i don,t have ivman .

(but why the blfs said the hal can do auto mount alone)

and i will install ivman.

thanks.

hi,

i install ivman and run ivman command but it said :
"can't mount because there is no /media/hdc

and when i add hdc in my fstab it mount but blfs said:

Note

HAL will ignore any devices listed in /etc/fstab for the purpose of automounting. You must remove any listings for devices that you would like automounted such as CD-ROMs or USB keys.

and i want to mount with cdrom name not with hdc how i do this.

Originally Posted by classic hi, no i don,t have ivman . (but why the blfs said the hal can do auto mount alone) and i will install ivman. thanks.

hal doesn't do any mounting. hal is short for Hardware Abstraction Layer and it makes it easy to write programs that react to changes in the hardware configuration (e.g. when you plug in a new device).

pmount is the tool that does the actual mounting and ivman ties hal messages to pmount actions.

(I should probably also mention that I'm not an XFCE user, I use GNOME.)

Originally Posted by classic hi, i install ivman and run ivman command but it said : "can't mount because there is no /media/hdc and when i add hdc in my fstab it mount but blfs said: Note HAL will ignore any devices listed in /etc/fstab for the purpose of automounting. You must remove any listings for devices that you would like automounted such as CD-ROMs or USB keys. and i want to mount with cdrom name not with hdc how i do this.

This I do not know for sure.

In my experience pmount will mount things based on the type (e.g. CDs will be mounted at /media/cdrom, USB sticks on /media/usbdisk). However, if the device has a label then that will be used instead.

Also, the icon name that appears on my desktop is largely unrelated to the mount point.

However, this is all under GNOME, not XFCE. I would suggest you seek out a more XFCE specific forum or mailing list for your questions. Sorry to not be able to help you more than this.

hi,

thank you magnus.therning

you help me very good now i know what is hal,ivman,pmount .

thank for your reply.

You might want to look into udev:
http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/util...tplug/udev-FAQ
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

Read this:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...fs/autofs.html

Umm, this depends from the distribution (s)he is using. In the newer releases autofs became obsolete (AFAIR) and the deveices are managed by HAL and DBUS via the udev-daemon.