On Sun 29 Jun 03, 3:30 PM, Mark K. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Heh... maybe you can kill two birds with one stone here. What if you > create /cdrom, /floppy, ... as symblinks to /auto/cdrom, /auto/floppy, > ...? Then whenever you access /cdrom, the kernel's gonna try to access > /auto/cdrom, which will then tell autofs to check the CDROM and mount it > if necessary. mark, this is absolutely brilliant.
even if it doesn't work, it ought to! it's THAT good of an idea! :) > Just an idea. I personally don't like automounting at all, partly because > I can't tell when it's mounting and unmounting and I can't be sure if I > can just pop my floppy out, and it doesn't let me eject the CD sometimes, > it doesn't recognize new floppy properly when I swap in a new floppy, ... well, i'm not big into automounting myself. i consider automounting to be the same as GNOME and KDE. bloat. however, with automounting there's a purpose. often games running under winex will want you to insert a 2nd cd. sometimes an installer will ask you to insert another CD as part of the install process. not a problem when running the game natively under windows, but it can be a problem when running it on winex under linux (i set up automounting on my gaming machine). pete -- GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
