On Friday 06 November 2020 10:06:30 am Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote: > On 2020/11/06 03:42 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > Is it just me or can sombody else replicate this behaviour: > > > > 1) pmount installed, udisks2 not installed: I get the "device inserted > > .."-dialog, but the device icons do not show up. Mounting and unmounting > > works. After removing all external devicis I still have /media/ populated > > with "interesting" folders, each containing one file > > ".creaded_by_pmount". Zhese survive a reboot, so I have to remove them by > > hand. > > > > 2) udisks2 is installed, pmount not instaled: I get the "device inserted > > .."-dialog, and all device icons as expected. Mounting and unmounting > > works. /media/ is working as expected, i.e. folders disappear when the > > device is removed. > > > > So ... save to say "install udisks2 and forget aboult pmount" ? pmount i > > used in exegnulinux, that's why I ran into it. > > Hi everyone, > I will reply here although I read the other messages too. I spent lot of > time testing with udisks2 and pmount in my work on LUKS support. > > I assume you are using R14.0.x since you still have the "device inserted" > dialog (not to worry, this will still be there in R14.1.0 although > currently it is not... long story behind it). > > udisks2 works like a charm, at least as root. If you are a normal user, you > may need permissions, but that is another matter. Each operation (unlock, > mount, unmount, lock) can be executed individually and overall there are no > issues. > > pmount provided partial functionality, as in you cannot execute those 4 > operations individually but only combined. Also pmount only supports > removable devices, while udisks2 works also on internal disks (like > /dev/sdX). > > Overall, based on my experience I fully recommend to use udisks2. pmount, > udevil, udisks provide partial or support for LUKS devices. Hi Michele, I wanted to thank you for both this post and the last LUKS post you made! It’s always nice to understand the ‘backend’ of the software we use. Oddly I though my machine was running udisks2, but it seems to only have pmount and udevil installed.[1] Would you have any recommendations on how to add udisks2 and remove pmount, udevil, and udisks, such that nothing ‘bad’ happens? Or is it safer to just add udisks2? Background: I used encrypted removable drives in the past for backups.[2] When the last one died (year+ ago) I switched backups to ‘tar | gpg’, so I’m not real sure I’ve used encrypted removable drives on this specific system. [3] I’d like to go back to using encrypted removable drives for backups (definitely easier), so I’m really glad these posts came up identifying I may not have ‘good’ software installed currently for that. Again, thanks for you help and knowledge. Best, Michael [1] # which udisks2 # which udisks # which pmount /usr/bin/pmount # which udevil /usr/bin/udevil [2] Known usage was Ubuntu 14.04 [3] michael@local [~]# cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
