Re: gnome-volume-manager doubt

On 21 Dec 2007, at 14:26, Leandro Marco wrote:

> Hi, I am not sure if you understood what my problem is.
>
> As we use diskless, the boot is from the network. There is only one
> fstab config files for all machines. I need to list the pendrive on
> it, so that people who don't use X, can mount ir manually.
>
> I want that gvm allows me to umount (using the context menu) even when
> the pendrive is listed on fstab.

You shouldn't need to list the pendrive in fstab - hal and g-v-m for  
GNOME users (or pmount for non-GNOME users) should do everything you  
need it to without using fstab static configuration.

Sorry if I'm still missing your point.

>
>
> Tanks
>
> On Dec 19, 2007 1:53 PM, Alex Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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 :-)
>>>
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>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Leandro
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