Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 16:48 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: On 04/18/2012 04:45 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: It shows up in the file manager; it's not mounted. Why not? In F16, it was mounted. In Windows, it's mounted. In Mac OS, it's mounted. Why

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-19 Thread cornel panceac
2012/4/19 Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 16:48 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: On 04/18/2012 04:45 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: It shows up in the file manager; it's not mounted. Why not? In F16, it was

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:23 +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: 2. I have a plugged-in USB disk and I am at the physical console however I need to find the name of my USB disk in the folder list and click on it before I can use any files on it This is what I personally object to, and I suspect

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 12:15 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: OK, so I took a look at the GNOME Disks utility, which I was finally able to get to run without crashing, and as far as I can tell, it doesn't resolve my main complaint with the new F17 behavior. Yes, I can use the Disks utility to

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread Jonathan Kamens
On 04/18/2012 01:06 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: If you set a specific mount location for a device in that tool - i.e. in fstab - it will be used even if the device is connected after login. Yes, I'm aware of that, but that's not what I want. If it is the position of the Fedora developers that

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 13:10 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: Yes, I'm aware of that, but that's not what I want. If it is the position of the Fedora developers that /run/media/$USER is the right place for stuff to be mounted, and I don't have a particular problem with that decision, then I

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Three use cases in which in my opinion the behavior is clearly incorrect: Case 1: 1. Put DVD in drive while logged in. DVD is mounted. 2. Reboot computer and log back in. DVD is not mounted. It should be. Case 2: 1. Put DVD in drive before logging in. DVD is not mounted. 2. Log in. DVD is

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread Richard Ryniker
If I plug it in while I'm logged in, it shows up. I log out and log back in, and it still shows up. If I reboot, plug it in during GDM, and then log in... it shows up. Under what circumstance does it not show up for you? If your USB stick is plugged in before you boot your system, where does it

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
Richard Ryniker (ryni...@alum.mit.edu) said: If I plug it in while I'm logged in, it shows up. I log out and log back in, and it still shows up. If I reboot, plug it in during GDM, and then log in... it shows up. Under what circumstance does it not show up for you? Aha, for this last one

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread Jonathan Kamens
On 04/18/2012 04:45 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: It shows up in the file manager; it's not mounted. Why not? In F16, it was mounted. In Windows, it's mounted. In Mac OS, it's mounted. Why should F17 behave differently from F17 and from every other mainstream OS people are familiar with? What

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread drago01
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Jonathan Kamens j...@kamens.us wrote: On 04/18/2012 04:45 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: It shows up in the file manager; it's not mounted. Why not? In F16, it was mounted. In Windows, it's mounted. In Mac OS, it's mounted. Why should F17 behave

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 14:40 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) said: On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 13:10 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: Yes, I'm aware of that, but that's not what I want. If it is the position of the Fedora developers that /run/media/$USER

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 16:48 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: On 04/18/2012 04:45 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: It shows up in the file manager; it's not mounted. Why not? In F16, it was mounted. In Windows, it's mounted. In Mac OS, it's mounted. Why should F17 behave differently from

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 21:38 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: The arguments are really going downhill here. I'm not overly interested in wading into this, but I'll just say that whenever we do something automatically, somebody will get mad. In the past, auto-mounting (and even just automatically

Re: automatically mounting physically attached media (was Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER)

2012-04-18 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 03:26 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 21:38 -0400, Ma Honestly, I'm not sure there's any difference at all between 'mount on attach' and 'mount on any attempt to access' from a security POV.

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 12:50 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, as KDE user I'm happy to note that this seems to be a GNOME thing. :-) The KDE automount framework hasn't been ported to udisks2 yet. It's still using udisks. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter:

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 14:05 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: This behavior messes up a bunch of scripts I've written that assume the external USB drive MyBackupDrive will be hooked up as /media/MyBackupDrive no matter who's logged in when it's plugged in. Phooey. Just put an entry in /etc/fstab .

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 09:42 -0600, Pete wrote: On 04/13/2012 07:48 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Ankur Sinha (sanjay.an...@gmail.com) said: On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 19:09 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: Hello, I just got into F17 today. It looks great. I do have one tiny query though: my USB

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-17 Thread Ankur Sinha
snippy Or perhaps the system could keep track of mounted devices and when the computer enters the same state as it was in when the device was previously mounted, mount it again automatically. In other words, If device x is mounted for $USER, and $USER logs out or the system reboots while

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 19:42 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: I just dug in. You can use the disks utility in gnome3 to mark your partitions/drives as automount. This also lets you specify where you want to mount them, properties etc. I think this should be somewhere in the release notes too. The

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-17 Thread Jonathan Kamens
On 04/17/2012 10:12 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: I just dug in. You can use the disks utility in gnome3 to mark your partitions/drives as automount. This also lets you specify where you want to mount them, properties etc. Would love to give that a try. Unfortunately, it coredumps for me on startup.

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-17 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 18:28 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote: O This behavior messes up a bunch of scripts I've written that assume the external USB drive MyBackupDrive will be hooked up as /media/MyBackupDrive no matter who's logged in when it's plugged in. Phooey. That ain't all that will get

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 14:54 -0500, John Morris wrote: If something like this is going to work for everyone there should be a way to pick on a per device or port basis how the device should be handled. There is, and has been for decades. It's called /etc/fstab . Really, seriously: whether we

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 14:54 -0500, John Morris wrote: If something like this is going to work for everyone there should be a way to pick on a per device or port basis how the device should be handled. There is, and has been for decades. It's called /etc/fstab . Really, seriously: whether we

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-16 Thread Pete
On 04/13/2012 07:48 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Ankur Sinha (sanjay.an...@gmail.com) said: On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 19:09 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: Hello, I just got into F17 today. It looks great. I do have one tiny query though: my USB media, and other partitions that I mount on-demand are no

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-16 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jonathan Kamens (j...@kamens.us) said: It is absurdly unpredictable that if I stick a DVD in my drive after logging in, it is mounted underneath /run/media/$USER, but if my computer than crashes, or I reboot it by hand, and I log in immediately after the reboot, that DVD is no longer mounted.

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-16 Thread Jonathan Kamens
On 4/16/2012 2:09 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Jonathan Kamens (j...@kamens.us) said: It is absurdly unpredictable that if I stick a DVD in my drive after logging in, it is mounted underneath /run/media/$USER, but if my computer than crashes, or I reboot it by hand, and I log in immediately after

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/13/2012 09:39 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: Hello, I just got into F17 today. It looks great. I do have one tiny query though: my USB media, and other partitions that I mount on-demand are no longer showing up in /media. They show up in /run/media/$USER. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-14 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 14:05 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: This behavior messes up a bunch of scripts I've written that assume the external USB drive MyBackupDrive will be hooked up as /media/MyBackupDrive no matter who's logged in when it's plugged in. Phooey. I have the same issue. Would

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-14 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:49:20 +0530 Ankur Sinha sanjay.an...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 14:05 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: This behavior messes up a bunch of scripts I've written that assume the external USB drive MyBackupDrive will be hooked up as /media/MyBackupDrive no matter

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-14 Thread Jonathan Kamens
It is absurdly unpredictable that if I stick a DVD in my drive after logging in, it is mounted underneath /run/media/$USER, but if my computer than crashes, or I reboot it by hand, and I log in immediately after the reboot, that DVD is no longer mounted. Independent of whether the move from

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-13 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 19:09 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: Hello, I just got into F17 today. It looks great. I do have one tiny query though: my USB media, and other partitions that I mount on-demand are no longer showing up in /media. They show up in /run/media/$USER. Can anyone shed some

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-13 Thread John Reiser
On 04/13/2012 06:48 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Release notes seem fine. Basically, removable media mounted in the user's session are now mounted in a user-specific directory. There's still a problem: cold-plugged media, or even warm-plugged media. Cold-plugged (before boot) should be mounted

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com said: On 04/13/2012 12:25 PM, John Reiser wrote: On 04/13/2012 06:48 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Release notes seem fine. Basically, removable media mounted in the user's session are now mounted in a user-specific directory.

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-13 Thread John Reiser
However, they aren't recognized [mounted] at all (not even upon subsequent graphical login), and this is bad. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722712 where there is some argument whether udisks2 or gvfs should bear the blame. Cold- or warm-plugged filesystem devices do

Re: Move from /media to /run/media/$USER

2012-04-13 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Friday, April 13, 2012, 3:05:43 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 04/13/2012 12:25 PM, John Reiser wrote: On 04/13/2012 06:48 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Release notes seem fine. Basically, removable media mounted in the user's session are now mounted in a user-specific directory. There's still