On Friday 07 February 2003 01:23 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday February 6 2003 02:08 pm, mbot wrote: > > Thanks, Damian. Although it's not what I really mean, still ... it > > helps a lot. Thanks again. > > Btw, there's a little problem. Why my computer always hang (so I > > must use Xkill) when my mouse pointing into this /mnt? To others, > > no problema. Do you know the answer? > > TIA first off, what happens if you wait a min, it may be just trying to mount all the drives, and has to find out that there is nothing in the cd and dvd drives. how long have you allowed the hang? and what happens if you ctrl+alt+ f3 while it is "hung"? can you login to a text console then?
> My solution was to move Windoze out of the /mnt directory. 'Course > I haven't had winsux installed for months ;> Anyhow, let's say your > Winblows is now in /mnt/win_c. As root create a /c directory, > 'mkdir /c'. Then 'umount' your Windoze partition. Make a bakup copy > of /etc/fstab. Then on the line in fstab that contains /mnt/win_c, > delete mnt/win_ leaving just, /c Then run 'mount -a'. You're > Windoze partition is now mounted on /c. No need to go thru /mnt, and > havt'a wait for supermount to figure out you don't have any removable > media inserted, or to access it if you do. > > I doubt your system need's Xkill'ing. It's probly just getting > hung on removable media for quite a while. If this is the case, > about your only choice is to (as root), 'supermount -i disable' > followed immediately with 'mount -a'. Then learn to use Kdiskfree to > mount/umount removable media. If you do this, there's no real need > to move winsux out of /mnt as I described above. > > BTW, for the most part, I've rarely had any problems with > supermount. Other than it takin a long time to access removable > media. This is vastly improved in 9.1, CD access is almost > instantaneous on the CL, and much quicker even with Konqueror.
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