HAL and the console

Lufbery · 05-14-2008, 08:58 AM

So, with pmount-hal included in pmount, does anyone need ivman?

Thanks,

-Drew

shadowsnipes · 05-14-2008, 10:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lufbery

So, with pmount-hal included in pmount, does anyone need ivman?

Thanks,

-Drew

only if they want scripts (such as those for auto-mounting) automatically run upon HAL events. Otherwise a simple 'pmount-hal /dev/device' will often do the trick.

iiv · 05-15-2008, 12:24 AM

Does this mean, that I have to add nesessary devices to /etc/pmount.allow? If yes, what's the difference then beetween this and adding devices to /etc/fstab?

shadowsnipes · 05-15-2008, 10:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iiv

Does this mean, that I have to add nesessary devices to /etc/pmount.allow? If yes, what's the difference then beetween this and adding devices to /etc/fstab?

No, all removable devices (cds, dvds, flash drives, external hdds, sd cards, etc) can be mounted using pmount unless they are in /etc/fstab and then pmount will use mount to mount them.

Any non-removable devices (eg. other partitions on your internal hdd) cannot be mounted by a normal user using pmount unless it is included in /etc/pmount.allow (or there is an fstab entry for it that allows user mounting).

Here's the Policy from the man page

Quote:

POLICY
The mount will succeed if all of the following conditions are met:

· device is a block device in /dev/

· device is not in /etc/fstab (if it is, pmount executes mount device
as the calling user to handle this transparently). See below for more
details.

· device is not already mounted according to /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts

· if the mount point already exists, there is no device already mounted
at it and the directory is empty

· device is removable (USB, FireWire, or MMC device, or
/sys/block/drive/removable is 1) or whitelisted in /etc/pmount.allow.

· device is not locked

iiv · 05-16-2008, 12:37 AM

Well, you forgot another one condition: 'if you are in plugdev", the device will be mounted.

Thanks everyone, pmount works as it should, although it could be better that no additional software would be included for this, just if /bin/mount could do this. Also, don't understand what for ivman pointless in this situation. Those things about "closing the lid" usually get done through ACPI daemon.