On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:18, serja wrote: give it a shot, it's really kinda cool. I use it for data recovery and for making partition images. I've also used to hard-disk install script on a laptop.
Chris > > > Kanotix > > what kanotix is? > > ------- Original message ------- > From: Alex Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Automounter in KDE > Date: 9 Август 2005 10:31 > > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 04:51, C. Hurschler wrote: > > > Kanotix mounts and places links to USB devices on the KDE desktop > > > just as one would expect, so it is possible (why shouldn't it be?). > > > When the device is removed the link dissapears from the desktop. I > > > don't know what packages or scripts or whatever are used to achieve > > > this. > > > > This, apparently: > > > > http://wiki.kanotix.net/CoMa.php?CoMa=usb-storage > > > > Note the comment: > > > > The script mounts every (useful) partition of your device and > > creates icons on your KDE desktop. If you pull the stick (or > > camera) the device is unmounted with "umount -l" ("lazy", because > > the device is already pulled) and the icon disappears. > > > > *Don't forget to do a sync before (or right mouseclick on the icon > > -> action -> save changes)!* > > > > I wonder how well-documented that is in the Kanotix distribution, > > because I saw several posts on the Kanotix forums: > > > > http://forum.kanotix.net/ > > > > which appeared to be result of users being unaware of their hardware's > > missing telepathy circuitry. > > > > A couple of posters here too seem to be overlooking that simple fact > > that you can *never* get the advantages of buffered I/O (speed and > > extended hardware life) *and* expect the convenience of yanking > > rw-enabled drives out at your leisure without potentially incurring > > data loss. That's why working with floppy disks is generally somewhat > > faster under most Linux distributions than under MS Windows, but > > requiring manual unmounting. -- Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler Bodenstedtstr. 13 30173 Hannover 0172-5940909
