Re: gnome-volume-manager doubt
Alex Jones <[email protected]>
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If you're not using X and GNOME, you won't be able to use g-v-m, as g- v-m is a session service (I don't know why either). You can still use pmount, though, I think. On 19 Dec 2007, at 14:46, Leandro Marco wrote: > > Hi. > > First of all, i would like to say that I don't know if this is the > right place for this question. As I couldn't find a more specific > list, I am sending this question here. I am wondering if you could > help or point someone that can. > > I work for a company, and here we use a diskless environment (network > boot). People who work here have different levels of computational > knowledge. Some people don't use X, and others are people who use > windows at their home computers. > > We use Debian 4.0, and I installed gnome-volume-manager in order to > use pen drives automount. Gnome-volume-manager doesn't require that we > put the mountpoints entries in etc/fstab; But, if I don't put the > entries in fstab the user that don't use X, won't be able to mount > pendrives without root privilegies. If I put the entries in fstab, gvm > mount the pendrive, but I can't unmount them by clicking on the > unmount option in the context menu. That occurs because i have > something like this on fstab: > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/pensda1 auto noauto,users,umask=000 > 0 0 > > When I insert the pendrive, /dev/sda1 is registred on mtab. When I try > to unmount by clicking on the unmount option I get this error: > > "umount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 is not mounted > (according to mtab)" > > I downloaded and read the gvm source and I could fix the problem by > changing the umount function so that it obtains, in case of failure, > (via hal calls) the mountpoint and them i use this to umount. > > But, I would like to know if there is another way to fix this, and if > there isn't, if this would be accepted as a patch (is there a problem > with thsi solution?). > > Thanks and sorry about the English errors :-) > > -- > Leandro > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Use Free Software!. Help us make a Free World!" > > O que é o Software Livre? > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.pt.html > _______________________________________________ > gnome-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list