supermount or equiv?
DAVID BALAZIC
david.balazic at uni-mb.si
Sat Oct 25 14:14:22 UTC 2003
George Farris <farrisg at mala.bc.ca> wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 08:13, Mark Guzzo wrote:
>> > > I don't think there is any simple way to unmount
>> > > and eject, is that not true?
>> >
>> > unmount :
>> > - wait for timeout or
>> > - manually umount
>> >
>> > eject :
>> > - push the eject button or
>> > - use the eject command
>> >
>> > both can be done from GUI, I guess ( I can't recall doing so lately though )
>> >
>>
>> Well,
>>
>> I enjoyed the talk about magicdev and autofs so much that I Googled
>> autofs to find out just how to use it. I found some good info, if any
>> one wants it here it is...
>>
>> http://www.linuxhq.com/lg/issue24/nielsen.html
>> This site has a script that works like a charm! I'll be doing this on my
>> wife's Fedora computer :-)
>>
>
>I wouldn't suggest it. This doesn't work with GNOME for example. It
>probably only works for the command line.
How do you mean it doesn't work with some program ?
It is a FS driver. It works with every program.
>Linux floppy support for the type of hardware that we have is broken, it
>always has been. If the floppy didn't have an eject button on it and
>only worked under software control it would be fine. In the real world,
>however, we have to live with the piece of crap hardware that we have
>and Linux just plain doesn't deal with it. Why the kernel developers
>can't fix this is beyond me but....
lack of motivation ?
other more interesting things to do ?
<you will hate me for this one>
why don't YOU do it ?
</you>
;-)
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David Balazic
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