I need a better way to mount in KDE

davidguygc · 05-22-2007, 10:39 AM

Hi, I have been looking for awhile a better way to mount my removable media (cd's, usb sticks). The bad part about USB jump drives is that I can't really put it in fstab, it is not always the /dev/sd* I say it is.

I have not had any luck finding any programs to take care of this. Does anybody know of any thing that sounds like what I'm looking for? I'd prefer it to be GUI, and the program able to take care of itself without me telling it to manually mount it every time.

Thanks,
David

synapse · 05-22-2007, 12:00 PM

Hi ive heard about a program called automount but ive never used it.
I think slack 12 will do a much better job at this so im just waiting paitiently ;-)
The problem lies in something called hal (I think) wich isnt compiled into kde on slac but im not 100% certain of this.

Well cheers

Alien_Hominid · 05-22-2007, 01:05 PM

HAL is hardware abstraction layer. It is used for automounting. It is included both in Gnome and Kde. You need 2.6 kernel for that. Check this link: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=DBUS for KDE.

Hern_28 · 05-22-2007, 01:24 PM

Can also create a udev rule for your drives giving them a persistent name. instruction in the /usr/docs/udev dir.

titopoquito · 05-22-2007, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidguygc

Hi, I have been looking for awhile a better way to mount my removable media (cd's, usb sticks). The bad part about USB jump drives is that I can't really put it in fstab, it is not always the /dev/sd* I say it is.

Hi David,

if you are using a 2.6 kernel then it's possible to change the udev rules so that the same device will get a constant symlink (I have for example a symlink /dev/usbhd-trekstor, it doesn't matter if my device is connected as sda or sdb or sdc ...).
http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html is the point where you should look if you're interested in this solution.

Alien_Hominid · 05-22-2007, 01:48 PM

I forgot to say that if you use KDE automounting, your devices will show in media://. Don't use this link to play films with kplayer (no rewind, forward in my KDE version, maybe it was fixed), test java applets. Go directly to /mnt/hda and watch/start them there.

Nem · 05-22-2007, 01:52 PM

I don't really see the need for automount
in slackware. /etc/fstab is very easy to set up
so I never had any problems.

This is my fstab

Code:

$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda2        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/hda3        /                reiserfs    defaults         1   1
/dev/hda4        /home            reiserfs    defaults         1   2
/dev/hda1        /mnt/windows     ntfs        ro               1   0
/dev/sda1        /mnt/memory      auto        users,rw         0   0
/dev/sda2        /mnt/memory      auto        users,rw         0   0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0
tmpfs            /dev/shm         tmpfs       defaults         0   0

Just plug in your usb stick run dmesg and
find what your stick is called.It should be called
/dev/sda1.Then just add the line to fstab.
If you don't want to use cmd line to mount your
usb sticks, you can also use kdiskfree in KDE
if you want to. I don't really know about automount
but I have used it in vector linux before and it worked fine.

Vincent_Vega · 05-22-2007, 01:54 PM

Creating udev rules is the nicest way to go for that. I had the same feelings recently so I took the time to add rules for all of my removable devices - mp3 player, cameras, SD cards, external hard drives, etc.
Now when I plug in, that device is automatically assigned to the /dev item I specified in my rule. Then my entry in fstab works.
But I agree, the default scheme is really annoying!

Vincent_Vega · 05-22-2007, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nem

Just plug in your usb stick run dmesg and
find what your stick is called.It should be called
/dev/sda1.Then just add the line to fstab.

The problem with that is, as mentioned, each device won't necessarily be the same /dev/sd* each time you plug it in. As a matter of fact, it _definitely_ won't always get assigned the same /dev.

rworkman · 05-22-2007, 04:08 PM

If you're using a 2.6 kernel and udev on Slackware 11, these two links have everything you need to know to get started...
http://slackwiki.org/Udev
http://slackwiki.org/Windows_Partitions

davidguygc · 05-22-2007, 05:05 PM

OK, I had heard about udev taking over hotplug, but I never really heard anybody talk about how they use it. I gotta say, I'm really suprised there aren't a lot of GUI programs out there to set it up, I know a few people one of the main reasons they don't use Linux is because it is such a pain for someone to access media if they are new to Linux.

Thanks for all the input, really appreciate it. BTW, any word on the ETA of Slack 12? Exciting stuff lol.

--David

rworkman · 05-22-2007, 07:45 PM

Patience, grasshopper :-) As always, when it's ready.

Vincent_Vega · 05-23-2007, 11:46 AM

Is Slack 12 approaching or was that just wishful thinking?

rworkman · 05-23-2007, 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vincent_Vega

Is Slack 12 approaching or was that just wishful thinking?

It is approaching; how fast is anybody's guess. :-)
The only answer that anyone can honestly give is "When It's Ready"

hitest · 05-23-2007, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rworkman

It is approaching; how fast is anybody's guess. :-)
The only answer that anyone can honestly give is "When It's Ready"

Great news, rworkman:-) I'm looking forward to Slack 12!
I'm enjoying using your site, rworkman:-) You have a great collection of build scripts. I compiled sylpheed 2.3.0 yesterday.

later,

hitest