[Gllug] Mounting removable media

Jason Clifford jason at ukfsn.org
Wed Jan 3 10:05:29 UTC 2007


On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Tethys wrote:

> Aaarrggghhh!!!! Will someone please invent a time machine, and go
> back and shoot whichever fool decided to make mounting removable
> media under Linux so damned complex before they do it?
> 
> The abortion that is gnome-volume-manager must die[1]. I'm rapidly
> coming to the conclusion that hald should join it, too. udev rocks,
> and may live. But the others are a crime against, well, my sensibilities.

So why don't you just use mount?

> [1] Since when did filesystem management become tied to the desktop,
>     anyway? Morons.

Only since you declined to use mount/umount to manage such things as I'll 
bet you used to.

Jason
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