On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 12:15 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > OK, so I took a look at the GNOME "Disks" utility, which I was finally > able to get to run without crashing, and as far as I can tell, it > doesn't resolve my main complaint with the new F17 behavior. > > Yes, I can use the Disks utility to configure removable devices, e.g., > my DVD drive, to mount on startup. But then it isn't going to mount > in /run/media/$USER, because there's no user logged in yet. > > My concern, which I've explained repeatedly and I believe is quite > legitimate despite all of the flak I've taken for it here, is that the > behavior of a removable device that is already inserted when I log in > should be exactly the same as the behavior of a removable device that > I insert after logging in. As far as I can tell the Disks utility > can't achieve that. If I'm wrong, please explain to me exactly how I > should configure, e.g., my DVD drive in the Disks utility so that if > there's a DVD in the drive when I log in, it will be mounted > under /run/media/$USER automatically. > > (And, while you're at it, explain to me why this shouldn't be the > default behavior, which I've yet to see anyone here explain, as far as > I recall.) If you set a specific mount location for a device in that tool - i.e. in fstab - it will be used even if the device is connected after login. -- 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
