media:/ shows unnecessary media

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

On Thu, 26 May 2005 17:24:41 +0000, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote:

> On Thursday 26 May 2005 10:47 am, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 May 2005 15:45:27 +0000, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote:
>>>> One thing that would be useful to see in the live Kubuntu is the
>>>> possibility to at least mount the local hard disks, if not
>>>> automagically with as less user intervention as necessary.
>>>
>>> yes, this is on several people's wish-list. But I believe this has to be
>>> done by a script at bootup - ie, add entries to fstab.
>>
>> Or something based on DBUS, HAL, pmount & co? Aren't there
> media io-slave is already based on DBUS/HAL i believe. (See the DCOP interface 
> of the media manager)
> 
>> automounters around available already? I understand that they're used
>> mostly for USB sticks, CD-ROMs and such, but couldn't they be used to
>> hard disks as well?
> I did install pmount, but I still did have to edit the fstab to add my CDROM 
> in order for it to be automounted. I think this is the same for all the 
> automounting libraries/programs, ie, the fstab has to be maintained.

Hm. The DBUS KDE Wiki page proposes pmount as a workaround to
alleviate the need of editing fstab; there is also another proposed
solution. Also, in the specifics I'm more concerned with the HD being
detected and mounted or mountable, not the CD-ROM, since the CD-ROM
drive is occupied by the live DVD anyway :)

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