On 5 August 2012 09:35, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 12:01:36PM -0400, Brian van den Broek wrote: >> On 4 August 2012 09:32, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 01:10:47AM -0400, Brian van den Broek wrote: >> >> >> So far, so good, but I'd love to know what was wrong with automounting >> >> to /media/drivelabel that automounting to >> >> /run/media/mountingusername/drivelabel fixes. >> > >> > This may be relevant on a multiuser system. >> > Don't know what the /run is for, though. /run used to be used with >> > daemontools, a competing way to keep services running, as I recall. >> >> I wondered if the multi-user issue was the motivation. If I cared, I'd >> just chmod and chown the /media/label, but of course that won't help >> users without sudo-powers. >> >> Reading around since I posted, I see that was indeed the motivation >> for the media/username part of the mount path: >> <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/udisks/commit/?id=aa02e5fc53efdeaf66047d2ad437ed543178965b>
<snip> > The big problem with the new convention is that the name for the > automount direcory is getting too long for convenient typing. Maybe > installing a symbolig limk from ~/media to /run/media/hendrik (in my > case) would help. Indeed. It is a hassle, and I've got entrenched muscle memory to overcome. Seeing if symlinks can fix the issue is one my list. > Have they fixed the problem that when multiple users are logged in it > picks the first one on its list to automount under instead of the user > that currently has control of the mouse and keyboard? That's the real > problem I have with automounting. Funny you should ask. I've a Sansa Clip+ that for the last year or so has sometimes been peevish about mounting on several different boxen and distros. It wouldn't mount yesterday, and after a while I decided to reboot the machine (it has helped on other machines.) I logged out of my account and then logged in to the active account of my wife to make sure there wasn't anything running a reboot would adversely affect. Imagine my surprise to find a dialog box asking for my account's pwd to authorize the mounting of the device. Pwd entered, it mounted under /run/media/brian, brian being the account I had just logged out of. I'll not call "bug" before investigating; I am new to the system and I did install thunar alongside LXDE's file manager. So, I might have brought this on myself. There is also the device's history of mounting oddly. It is, however, suboptimal. Best, Brian vdB _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
