Mounting with udev

beaker222 · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 52

Hello,

I installed a new Gentoo 2005.1 (stage3 with GRP Packages) and KDE 3.4.3. Now I have two problems concerning mounting with KDE:

1) When I usually click on the System Icon on the Desktop and go to Storage Media, my hard discs and cd/dvd drives are shown. Then the hard discs have their "normal" names as hda1 hdc3 and something like this. And mounting and unmouting works fine. But sometimes when I go to Storage Media, the devices look different. Then, the hard discs aren't named as usual, but they have names like 47GMedia and the CD/DVD Devices are only shown when there's a CD/DVD inserted. So what can I do, that the devices are always shown with their normal names and that the CD/DVD devices are always shown, even if there's no disc inserted?

2) The second problem is about using udev rules. I tried to write some udev rules for mounting a mobile usb hard disc and my camera. These are the rules that I have written for this:

Telemin · l33t Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 753 Location: Glasgow, UK

The booting problem is that you have set the fsck setting to yes on your two devices in fstab, so although it doesn't mount them it still tries to do an integrity check and crashes since they aren't there, set the two fsck bits to 0 and you should have no boot problems.
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beaker222 · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 52

Thanks, changing the 1 to 0 helped for the boot problem!

Now, can I somehow make KDE mount these drives automatically when they are connected and make an icon appear somewhere, so that I can access the devices?

And any ideas for my first problems with the strange device names?

Bye,
Beaker

Telemin · l33t Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 753 Location: Glasgow, UK

KDE autmounting can be done with ivman. it's in portage.

and as for the wierd names i'm not sure, all i can see from my own kde is that it seems to read the info out of fstab, since it gives me two references to the same device in mine, one through the normal node, and one through the packet writing node, exactly as i put it in my fstab.

Which version of kde are you using?
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Headrush · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:03 am Post subject:

KDE version 3.5 includes automounting built-in. (All options can be set in kcontrol)

For versions < KDE 3.5 look here:http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS,_HAL,_KDE_media:/

ziggysquatch · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:40 am Post subject:

not sure if I fully understand the problem that remains but I had an issue that sounds similar.

I had my dvd/cd drives listed two times in the computer area in Nautilus they were listed once with the hdc or "normal" name and listed again with a differant name like DVD Drive or CD Drive

I found out that if you have an automounting program running you have to add managed in /etc/fstab on the device's line.
This is what mine looks like: