On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 02:45 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: > On Friday 10 February 2006 00:59, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 20:52 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: > > > On Thursday 09 February 2006 06:38, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > This doesn't seem to be the right way to go, as I can mount the drive > > > > _without_ nls_utf8, but gnome-volume-manager can't... > > > > > > I *think* gvm uses fstab to override defaults. > > > You can try to add an entry for your usb device to /etc/fstab > > > > > > /dev/sdd1 /gvm/mountpoint vfat > > > noauto,user,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859 > > >-1 0 0 > > > > could do, but I have multiple drives (media readers, external hd's, etc) > > so I can't do this for all of them, especially when I plug them in > > random orders. And I don't want to play with udev (just yet :) > > udev is great for this.
I know, but look at the length of your udev howto - It doesn't compare to gvm, which should do it as simply as emerge then plug-in. Especially if I'm setting up multiple machines, for any arbitrary usb-disk - what then? udev rules can't help me. thanks anyway :) -- Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. -- [email protected] mailing list
