Re: [e-users] (no subject)

On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 23:42:51 +0200 comantelix36 <[email protected]> said:

> Thank you very much Carsten. Firstly, I am sorry for posting into wrong
> thread (I somehow missed the subject while checking grammar), this is the
> first time I am using a mailing list. Secondly, I poorly explained my
> intention. I am trying to make EFM work with HDD the same way the KDE does,
> i.e. mount (and unmount) the HDD only when I explicitly request it via file
> manager GUI, rather than create an fstab entry to automatically mount the
> drive or mount it via command line. My reason not to use the fstab and
> mount/unmount manually is to make manually sure the disk is not used and
> safely stopped before I move the laptop. That is, I thought that I could
> use EFM as a GUI to mount and unmount the HDD with UDISKS2 if I set the HDD
> properties accordingly for it to be recognised as a removable device and I
> understand that EFM is not meant to do that.

efm will not do it. it's not a removable drive. since it's fixed there is no
value in trying to have it unmounted - if you don't modify the content it's
going to be safe. it'll get unmounted like rootfs (/) on shutdown or reboot
etc. - so it'll be just as safe as your rootfs.

> so 5. 8. 2023 v 21:33 odesílatel Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>
> napsal:
> 
> > On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 17:59:03 +0200 comantelix36 <[email protected]>
> > said:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I am using Enlightenment 0.25.4 and I am trying to get Enlightenment to
> > > display secondary HDD as an mountable HDD in file manager. Previously I
> > > used the HDD this way under KDE.
> > > The computer in question is a dual Sata disk laptop with installation on
> > > NixOS on SSD at /dev/sdb and a secondary data HDD at /dev/sda. The HDD is
> > > not displayed by the enlightenment file manager (EFM), while any other
> > USB
> > > flashdrive or USB HDD I tried worked flawlessly. The HDD contains one
> > Ext4
> > > partition labeled "Data" and is omitted from the the fstab, so that it is
> > > not mounted by the system automatically. The EFM is set to UDISKS2 mode.
> > > I suspected the EFM considers the HDD a "system drive" (as in udev
> > > HintSystem) and hides it. Before my intervention the HDD was reported by
> > > udiskctl (# udisksctl info -b /dev/sda) "HintSystem: true". Adding
> > > appropriate udev rule I changed this to false (both for /dev/sda and the
> > > /dev/sda1 partition). This did not help. I have inspected the source code
> > > concerning UDISKS2 from EFM (src/bin/e_fm/e_fm_main_udisks2.c) where I
> > > found check for "HintSystem" applied to block devices. There is also a
> > > check applied to storage devices: non-removable, non-hotswappable,
> > > non-ejectable storage device is considered system. It seems to me that
> > this
> > > check is not be applied to block devices. Finally I also removed the
> > "~/.e"
> > > directory, which did not help as well.
> > > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > efm is meant to show icons for removable devices - the kind that can be
> > unplugged/ejected/removed etc. everything else is a system drive and
> > should be
> > handled by fstab as its not a removable device.
> >
> > --
> > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------
> > Carsten Haitzler - [email protected]
> >
> >
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