As 1.5 and other portable devices are using SD as their main storage: What is a removable volume ?
On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > I have the subdirectories for some Activities installed on my > "permanent" SD card (it's in the "external" slot of my XO-1.5). > Os42 is not mounting (at boot) my "permanent" SD card. I > experimented with removing the SD card's entry from /etc/fstab. > > The first time sugar came up (after boot), it did not show the > activities on my SD card in Home View - because that SD card was not > yet mounted at the time sugar started. I did ctl-alt-erase to > restart sugar. Now sugar came up *showing* those activities. > > > What I believe happened: 1) Because the system did not mount the SD > card, sugar the first time could not "link" to the activities on it. > 2) But sugar itself mounted all removable volumes accessible by > the machine, including my SD card. 3) So when sugar started the > second time, those activities could be "linked", and sugar showed > them. Sounds reasonable, given my experience. Sugar is definitely doing the mounts into /media. > My question -- how come Sugar mounts *all* removable volumes ? Why not ? It seems reasonable that a user would want to copy something onto removable media. (BTW, isn't there a more appropriate mailing list for Sugar feature discussions, not that we don't miss the occasional one on devel ?) Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
