On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 07:23, 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 > > 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.
Normally Tom, i enjoy your input immensly as very useful. I am respectfully going to take issue with this one though as i beleive there is a "better" way. This breaks the standard and thus should be frowned upon. |:-( I suspect that the "hang" is in a file manager like konqueror or similar. In my opinion there is often a generous pause (up to 10 secs here on my machine) when accessing /mnt/ due to my DVD, CD-RW, and floppy seeking a disk. Do all methods cause the "hang". Try "ls /mnt" in a terminal. My solution would be to put a link to the /mnt/windows directory in your ~, if this is a problem. [michael@tirnanog michael]$ ln -s /mnt/windows ~/windows is my own example. Then a clicking on the (apparent) windows directory in /home/michael/ takes me straight into windows without testing the removable media on the way. Each user does this separately. Sorry Tom, i am not wanting to offend a master, just offering what i beleive is a better alternative. -- Michael
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