On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 14:54 -0500, John Morris wrote: > If something like this is going to work for everyone there should be a > way to pick on a per device or port basis how the device should be > handled. There is, and has been for decades. It's called /etc/fstab . Really, seriously: whether we were on automount or gnome-mount or hal or DeviceKit or udisks or udisks2 or something else I've successfully drunk out of my memory, the answer to 'how do I make it get handled some way other than the automounter's default' has _always_ been 'put a line in /etc/fstab which explains what you want to happen'. (The exception, I think, is that KDE didn't properly respect all fstab settings, at least at some point in history; I don't know if that still holds). udisks2 does not change this. It doesn't change the format or function of /etc/fstab. If you want things to happen differently from how udisks2 does them by default, express this in /etc/fstab, and udisks2 will respect it. As it has for decades, fstab has options that handily express 'mount this at boot', 'never mount this automatically', 'mount this in this specific location' and so on and so forth. If you don't think udisks2 is correctly respecting a setting in /etc/fstab, I believe this should be considered a bug and reported. I've mentioned it elsewhere in this thread, but if you need a reliable way to identify a specific removable storage device in /etc/fstab, you can use the /dev/disk/by-* directory tree and this will be interpreted just fine - you can create an fstab entry for /dev/disk/by-label/SomeDiskLabel and any disk with that label will be mounted in the way specified, or for /dev/disk/by-uuid/SomeUUID and any disk with that UUID will be mounted in the way specified, and so on and so forth. > Since the vast majority of systems are single user machines or servers > the old UNIX ways should be the default since they work best for those > typical usages. I don't think anyone would contest that /etc/fstab is a very old UNIX way of doing things. =) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
