gnome-volume-manager not mounting external firewire drive

[Rich Duzenbury]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 16:12 +1000, CB wrote:
> As I understand it, gnome-volume-manager should just mount an external 
> firewire drive without my intervention (have I got this right?).

CB, 

I'm sorry to report that I can't help you with your problem, except to
ask if you've considered trying the automount daemon?  

I'm not using it currently for a removable drive, but I do use it to
automount an SMB share on another machine.  I must report I'm not
entirely sure it would be appropriate.

As soon as I start to use the folders on the share, ubuntu mounts if
possible.  Then, after a pre-determined amount of inactivity (5 minute
seems to be the default), it unmounts.

/etc/auto.master
/mnt/machine        /etc/auto.machine

/etc/auto.machine:
cdrive -fstype=smbfs, password=redacted, fmask=0777,
dmask=0777   ://machine/c

I believe you can set the configuration to mount other than smbfs
shares.  

I have the autofs script automatically loading the automount daemon on
each boot.

At any time, I can issue a 'ls /mnt/machine/cdrive' and see the contents
of the root of the share.

No mount record is in /etc/fstab.

When the share is mounted by automount, it _is_ visible via the df
command.


HTH

--
Regards,
Rich

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