-Is there anyway to allow CD-ROM's and floppy disks to be changed without going
through the mount umount procedure?
Apparently yes. Apparently, because I just tried and didn't succeed :
One program called fdmount seems to poll a floppy device and mount it
when it finds that a disk has been inserted :
fdmount --daemon fd0
Should do. Fdmount may require (on Debian 2, at least) that the user
be in the "floppy" group of users. In that case, you may have to do :
newgrp floppy
(as root, to avoid passwords).
However, I have inserted and removed disks, and nothing has been mounted.
I should check man pages again.
It seems that it is safer to umount a floppy before ejecting it :
with some drives, the disk may be ejected without Linux updating it.
There apparently is also a program 'amd' for automounting, that
<quote> mounts file systems "on demand" when they are first
referenced and unmounts them after a period of inactivity.</quote>
And there is a "kernel-based" automounter, but I don't know what
that means.
For cd's, Debian has a package 'vold' but it requires a 2.1.XXX kernel.
For a prettyer interface to mount, there is a 'xvmount' program.
So there seem to be some solutions, although the one I tried does
not seem to work.
Good luck,
Etienne
ps : Tips welcome
