On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:23:43 +0000 Graham Cobb <g+jo...@cobb.uk.net> wrote:
> On 18/03/14 15:23, Mohammed Hassan wrote: > > the SD card will be mounted under /media/sdcard in a directory named > > after the UUID of the partition. This was done in order to guarantee > > that tracker can identify the partition uniquely. > > That is a really, really bad decision. Was there any discussion on > together about this idea for working round the tracker bug that it > doesn't record media ids along with file names? If so I missed it. The work has been done publicly in the sd-utils git repos. > So, a tracker bug means that every user now has to deal with stupid > directory names and things called UUIDs which they have never heard > of? Why would every user has to deal with UUIDs? Why do they even care? If you are referring to power users who have the terminal installed then those are not _every user_. Beside, it's not a tracker bug. It's simply how tracker works. > Even I could come up with a better idea with 30 seconds thought: mount > the sdcard (if it has more than one partition, choose any one at > random -- 99.999% of cards don't have more than one partition) into > (say) /home/nemo/sdcard. Tell tracker not to > index /home/nemo/sdcard/. Also mount every partition > into /media/sdcard/<UUID> and let tracker index those. Unmount them > all on shutdown. /home/nemo/sdcard is not a unique name which means that all cards will be identified as one card. goto pre-update 4 situation. > > Also note that if you have more than one partition then all will be > > mounted under /media/sdcard/ so there isn't even a guaranteed single > > partition to begin with ;-) > > Anyone with sdcards with more than one partition can probably handle > dev mode and control the mounting themselves. In any case, the > stupid UUID directories should only appear if there is more than one > partition. Any user without a terminal does not need to even know where the cards are mounted. Stuff will be presented automatically to the user. Cheers, > Anyway, this list isn't the right place to work out the solution. > Please contribute to the discussion at > https://together.jolla.com/question/33774/info-10420-ext-sdcard-directory-change/ > > Graham > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list
