On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:50:53AM +0300, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
> Hello  folks!
> 
> During February-March I started two threads, which were left unresolved. As 
> before the underlying distro is SuSE Pro, now 9.3.
> 
> 1. Configuring a keydisk
> Nothing special is needed! The system mounts the thing automatically, like 
> a hard disk. Since I'm formatted FAT32 there are no hangups over 
> permissions etc. It is mounted by root, and creates an entry under 
> /media,i.e. /media/KEYDISK. This is important, since before removing it, 
> you must become root and issue a umount /media/KEYDISK. You do need the 
> latest SuSE 9.3 patch to make this work.

Interesting.

What happens if you have more than one simultanously?

> 
> Once the unit is mounted, an icon is displayed on the desktop, which can be 
> clicked to open up a konq display.
> 
> This is somewhat unsatisfactory in that there is nothing in mtab or fstab 
> "seen" by utilities like kdiskfree. (There is the usual
> usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      user,noauto           
> 0 0
> entry in fstab & mtab - which doesn't seem to get picked up.)

This is not the mount point of the disk. What about /proc/mounts?

  grep /media /proc/mounts

> It seems that SuSE has butchered mount(8) in some cruel and unusual manner. 
> My previous solution that worked under SuSE 9.2 no longer works.

Even if you play games with mount, you can really mount something to the
filesystem without the kernel doing it, right?

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