On 11/25/06, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a removable USB drive on my system. When KDE starts an icon appears on the desktop that allows the drive to be mounted in the /media directory; as a side effect the directory /media/usb-disk/ is created on which to mount the drive. This is done by right clicking the icon and clicking on the desired action in the popup menu. There must be some way to have a shell script perform the same operation that clicking on the icon/popup line mount makes happen. What is it? If I create the directory /media/usb-disk and then "$ mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb-disk", everything works fine till I unmount the disk, as can be done using the icon; but then an attempt to remount the drive by clicking on the "Open" line in the popup fails with the message: The mount point '/media/usb-disk' is already occupied which is, of course, not correct. I think I've filed a bug on this, but I have so many bugs outstanding that I'm not sure. Thanks - jon -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
If I understand correctly, you mounted the USB device via command line but unmounted it via the GUI? Unless I am mistaken that is not permitted in gnome. I believe the last time I tried that it gave an error saying it was mounted via command line therefore must be unmounted the same way. Perhaps the same applies with KDE but KDE is failing to give that message and thinks that it unmounted it. Check your mount command after unmounting via KDE to see if it really is unmounted or if KDE mistakenly believes it to be. Because that would certainly cause the error you noted. The bug would be with KDE not properly detecting that it was mounted via the command line and therefore must be unmounted the same way (unless KDE upon detecting that can unmounted it appropriately. I'm not clear what you want the script to do. If it's simply to mount via the command line, then you simply put what you typed at the command line into a script (you can technically omit the #!/bin/bash for that case). Jacques B. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list