RFE: More on mounting + a question about the "console" flag

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Oct 4 13:41:45 UTC 2004


Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

> People mount up the floppy (acctually, they have no clue that they are
> mounting it, they just click the nice little "floppy" icon), get their
> files, pull out the floppy (without umounting), and logs out.
> 
> Then, 2 minutes later, another user logs in, pulls up his/her floppy,
> and... the floppy is mounted. Cant get it umounted, and can't mount
> his/her floppy. Grr...

I've oftentimes setup machines to use the automounter with a 
rediculously low timeout value (say 6-30 seconds) for cases/users like this.

-- Rex




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