best way to automount ?

dju` · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 370

Hi, what's the best way to automount CDs and USB mass storages? I'm a bit lost between:

supermount
submount
hal
dbus
ivman
USE +hal
udev
famd

etc... thanks for your answers. btw, i'm still not using udev because the last time i wanted to, it broke my /etc ! so 'im still using devfs, but i might give udev a try once more.

r00tzz · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:06 am Post subject:

I think the best way to automount stuff is

hal+dbus+gnome volume manager / ivman

at least the most up to date and probably the default in future instalations.

EDIT: give udev a try, it's needed by them..

rm · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 87

I have udev, no devfs in the kernel, hal, dbus and gnome-volume-manager installed.

-> hald is in my default runlevel, I just checked, and dbus is not in any runlevel, so I guess it's started automatically via hald.
-> gnome-volume-manager is set up, to start when I start a gnome session

mounting and unmounting works like a charm, just insert and eject.

bye,
rm

maxpayne · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 122

i emerged ivman, yet automounting doesn't work...

i made sure hald and dbus are started

Crucis · n00b Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 65 Location: Singapore

Mine works perfectly, you probably made a mistake somewhere :?:

paul555 · l33t Joined: 22 Nov 2004 Posts: 612 Location: Greece

I tried to go with udev and ivman from devfs -which i had from the installation- i emerged them but after that my kernel didn't boot.Now i will try a second time and see.Submount isn't supported anymore?

bollucks · l33t Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 606

bomek · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:16 am Post subject:

HAL with gvm work perfectly, except after 1-2 days, hald crash and i can't restart it. So i need to reboot to get automounting working again.

I tried to gdb hald, but when hald crash in gdb, there is no way to backtrace and i have to kill gdb with a -9

And worst of it, there is no way to reproduce the problem... Until hal is more stable, i think supermount is a good choice.

dju` · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 370

do you advise ivman or gvm?

UB|K · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject:

If you use gnome definitly go with gvm else ?? i realy don't don't know if gvm can work properly outside gnome.
As allready said, you will need udev to make it work. If you want to stick with devfs, i guess that supermount is your only choice (or ivman?? don't know anything about it, sorry)... it's sad, udev's not that hard to configure, give a new try

dju` · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 370

well, i've tried twice to run udev (with tarball, not 100% udev) on two different boxes: each time, it borked my / partition (wich runs reiserfs). the first time i boot with a udev-enabled kernel, it reboots at INIT time, probably when starting udevd up. after that, i have to boot on the livecd to fsck /, and everytime i had a bunch of files in lost+found, which corresponded to directories under / (like /lost+found/2_155/ -> /etc/)... so i'm not ready to retry again until this kind of issues haven't been resolved.

dsd · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject:

they are (according to someone who filed a bug report) fixed in 2.6.10.
plus you will not experience this if you follow the udev guide and make sure that /dev/console and /dev/null exist on the root partition
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dju` · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 370

ok, i've tried again on one box, and now it successfully runs pure udev

so i've set hal/dbus/ivman up, which works well for CD and DVD media types, but the system freezes when umounting my usb drive. i may give gvm a try cause no additionnal deps are needed to install it.

dju` · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 370

btw, what modifies /etc/fstab at each boot, adding /media/* entries?

andyknownasabu · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject: