media:/ shows unnecessary media

[Kari Pihkala]

1. It doesn't look like it is possible to remove partitions from the
media list (e.g. swap partitions).
2. Sadly, figuring out the drive letter for Windows partitions is not
that simple. For instance, I have C, D, and F (E is the CD-ROM). So,
perhaps it should simply show Windows 1, Windows 2,... so that it
wouldn't confuse people.

The list is automatically persistent over bootups. It could check that
if a media doesn't yet have a user label, then it would assign one. If
the media has a user label, then don't overwrite it. That way, the
user could also rename them.

CD-ROMs seems to be fine - they display the CD label. Actually,
harddisk partitions also have a label - is it useful?

So, my machine would look like (unknown is some logical partition
created by windows):
Floppy Drive
Linux A2 (32M Media)
Linux A5 (8.4G Media)
Swap (542M Media)
Unknown (1.0K Media)
Windows 1 (4.2G Media)
Windows 7 (17G Media)
Windows 8 (9.7G Media)

 - Kari


On 5/25/05, Rajeev J Sebastian <rajeev_jsv at dinamis.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 May 2005 7:17 pm, Kari Pihkala wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > yes, it is possible to rename the names using dcop! I wrote a perl
> > script to do that. Here's how it looks.
> Excellent work !!
> > The old (on my machine with 3 windows partitions, swap & boot partition):
> >  Floppy Drive
> >  1.0K Media
> >  17G Media
> >  32M Media
> >  4.2G Media
> >  542M Media
> >  8.4G Media
> >  9.7G Media
> >
> > The new:
> >  Floppy Drive (fd0) (/media/floppy0)
> >  1.0K Media (hda3) (unknown)
> >  17G Media (hda7) (/wind)
> >  32M Media (hda2) (/boot)
> >  4.2G Media (hda1) (/winc)
> >  542M Media (hda6) (swap)
> >  8.4G Media (hda5) (/)
> >  9.7G Media (hda8) (/winf)
> >
> > What do you think about this? I added the hda-text, since clicking on
> > a media will open media:/hda location. It looks quite logical to have
> > it in the name.
> >
> > However, it starts to look a bit geeky, I don't know if regular users
> > care to see such technical information. Also, I don't know how
> > removable media (USB memory, cameras etc.) will look like..
> I believe, the same dcop object that allows you to change the name, also 
> provides additional info: eg the partition type and/or volume label
> 
> With the partition type, you could do things like:
> 1) remove swap partitions
> 2) get a list of windows partitions sorted by device name, and then assign 
> Windows X, where X is the index into the list: eg, /dev/hda1 = 'Windows C',
> etc.
> 3) For Linux, a similiar scheme as in windows (/dev/hda1 = 'Linux A1')
> 4) maybe volume label is provided by USB stick ? (i dont know, i dont have
> USB 
> stick to test)
> 
> Also, some other comments:
> perhaps a possibility to save the current list, and check this list at
> startup 
> to see if there are new drives ? 
> 
> Using IVman, you can also detect the insertion of all kinds of devices (USB,
> 
> CDROM, DVD, etc). Perhaps you should integrate this script as an IVMan 
> command/action ?
> 
> Just my observations :) Please do consider which is appropriate :)
> 
> Hoping to see other great developments on Kari's Media Manager ;)
> Rajeev J Sebastian
> 
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