Dan Nicholson wrote:
Andy, what happens if you don't have fstab entries and no HAL?
Well obviously, if there's no suitable entry in /etc/fstab then I'd have to become root to be able to mount something. I don't like the idea of using a daemon running in the background all the time. Working out what to put in /etc/fstab and writing udev rules so it all works properly are part of administering a system. For example, it would create a problem to plug 2 usb memory devices in at once because they couldn't both be /dev/sda1. In that situation I'd need to write udev rules to put the different devices on different nodes in /dev and then use entries in /etc/fstab to mount them in different places. In practice, it doesn't happen. The kids just plug in on device at a time. The hard part was teaching them to right click and unmount the device before unplugging it. ROX works slightly better than Nautilus in that regard. In ROX, when you navigate away from a folder you've mounted it asks you if it should unmount it or take no action. In Nautilus you have to remember to right click and unmount it.
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