gnome-volume-manager vs. automount w/ usb memory stick

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:49:04 -0500, Dr. Steve <rockdoctor at nfldinet.com> wrote:
> Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'll ask anyway. Prior
> to installing gnome-volume-manager, I had an entry in /etc/auto.mnt that
> would mount device sda1, either my camera or my usb memory stick as
> /mnt/camera. Although I had to be root to write to the memory stick, the
> complete file name would always be displayed when listing the directory.
> With gnome-volume-manager deployed, the memory stick mounts as usbdisk
> (haven't looked to see which directory it's in) and is writable by an
> ordinary user, but all I see is a truncated 8.3 msdos-style file name.
> I'd really like to see the complete file name. Is there a simple way to
> do this?
> TIA

Have you identified the mount options that are different?  Both
automount and the hal/gnome-volume-manager way are essential just
fancy logic on top of the mount command. So if you can figure what the
difference is in terms of mount options maybe we can figure out why
hal/gnome-volume-manager isn't using the best options to see the full
filenames. With the usbstick plugged in you should see an entry for it
in /etc/fstab. Compare that to the mount options you defined when
setting up the auto.misc entry.

-jef