Re: Automount on fluxbox under Ubuntu Oneiric

He says it works in other DE's, but not when using fluxbox as a WM, so
I think it's valid to check with the fluxbox.

I'll give it a shot when I have a moment (on opensuse).



On 10/20/11, JDE <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rainer, i mean no disrespect, but this is really offtopic, as in not
> directly related to fluxbox. I'd suggest taking it to the Ubuntu mail
> list or IRC channel.
>
> >From what I gather though you have several pendrives connected to
> different USB slots. You may want to setup different directories/mount
> points for each pendrive (IE: /mnt/pen00, /mnt/pen01, et cetera), and
> access them that way.
>
> My suggestion is read through the autofs docs and play with autofs for
> an hour or two before asking for any further help.
>
> http://www.autofs.org/
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> Cheers!
>
> On 20 October 2011 06:57, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Fernando M. Maresca <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:03:17PM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>> > Is nobody automounting under fluxbox? I can open nautilus ant mount
>>> > from
>>> > there,
>>> > but I would definitely prefer an automatic version, so that I can also
>>> > use the
>>> > drive directly from an xter,m.
>>>
>>> I do not really need automount but for repetitive tasks I prefer to use
>>> autofs, that's the linux kernel automount facilities, combined with some
>>> simple udev rules.
>>>
>>> This way I have:
>>> /media/cdrom
>>> /media/ebook
>>> /media/pendrive
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> I simply can cd to the directory and the kernel will automount the
>>> device if it's present. There are other options however.
>>
>> That works for cd and single pendrives, but I have a few drives, which are
>> used by backup scripts, and therefore expect a specific mountpoint. In
>> addition, having the device mounted to a mountpoind based on the name of
>> the
>> device, is a nice sanity check for the backup script: if /media/backup
>> does
>> not exist, then the backup fails, in contrast to backing up to
>> /media/externalhdd, which would be there irrespective of the external hdd,
>> so a backup could go on the wrong hdd.
>>
>> So: for certain cases that works, for my needs unfortunately not.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rainer
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
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