Using pmount in place of fstab-sync with gnome-volume-manager?

Jeffrey Stedfast fejj at novell.com
Fri Jul 8 07:33:23 PDT 2005


you want to get g-v-m 1.3.2

Jeff

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 23:02 +1200, Simon Geard wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I'm running an LFS system in which I've just managed to get HAL and GVM
> working successfully (using HAL 0.5.2 and appropriate Gnome patches).
> I'm not too keen on the fstab-sync approach to mounting devices though,
> so I'm trying to get things to work with pmount instead.
> 
> I have pmount 0.8 installed and working on it's own, having improvised a
> patch to make pmount-hal compile and work with the new API. My current
> problem is to get gnome-volume-manager to use it.
> 
> Searching the net turned up the suggestion to pass --with-mount-program
> and --with-umount-program to configure, but these don't seem to exist
> anymore (the instructions dealt with g-v-m 1.0.x, while I'm using
> 1.3.1). Looking through the code, it appears to require the use of
> standard mount, so I'm guessing current versions would need to be
> patched to work with pmount?
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction? What do the distros do?
> 
> Simon.
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