on 02/10/2007 06:54 PM Globe Trotter wrote:
--- Paulo Cavalcanti <promac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/10/07, Globe Trotter <itsme_410@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
please bring back automatic editing of /etc/fstab with a mount of
removable
media. is there any particular reason why it is better to have it removed?
life
has been too complicated ever since....
Sorry, but this is not going to change. We have to adapt.
The main difference is that one will never know, in advance,
where something is going to be mounted
/media/....
But a well written python script can even find out this for you.
Can someone please find this out then? The problem with a moving target is that
programs that actually do something can not be written to read data from a
disk.
Are Ubuntu, etc also going the same way?
The reason? Is it not easier for an end user, who has no idea what fstab is?
Can we not have both? Linux is for the end user but also for the advanced user,
I hope!
I do not believe that many an end user is going to use Linux. Sadly, the fear
factor is too high. This is what MS lives off.....
Besides what are
the main advantage was that even if you turn off the automatic mounting
of removable media the mounting points were created in the /media right
after your SD_card/USB_stick/UMS_flashplayer was inserted. So I was able
to open a terminal (using a predefined hotkey), mount the media, copy
stuff, and unmount the media without touching the mouse. Now I feel like
handicap, because Nautilus is made for people with only one finger glued
to the mouse, and I don't know any other to mount/unmount the media...
So I completely agree that life in linux is getting tougher and tougher
for advanced user...
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regards,
Oleksandr Korneta
/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./
