mount point

Jeffrey Stedfast fejj at novell.com
Fri Aug 18 11:02:07 PDT 2006


no, that would be Hal

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 18:31 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> On hal 0.5.7:
> 
> [arc at centauri:/usr/share/hal/scripts]$ grep MOUNT_ROOT *
> hal-system-storage-cleanup-mountpoints:MOUNT_ROOT="/media"
> hal-system-storage-mount:MOUNT_ROOT="/media"
> ...
> 
> Does that folder has anything to do with g-v-m?
> 
> 2006/8/18, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org>:
>         On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 10:57 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
>         > On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 12:18 +0200, Soren Hansen wrote:
>         > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:13:40PM -0400, David Zeuthen
>         wrote:
>         > > > > hi, can anyone tell me where is the code written for
>         finding the 
>         > > > > moint point(point where the device needs to b
>         mounted). for eg
>         > > > > /media/usbdisk?  is it written in hald or udev .
>         > > > No, it's a parameter passed to the Mount() method and
>         usually comes 
>         > > > from the desktop specific mount program. For example,
>         gnome-mount
>         > > > reads this stuff from gconf - see the gnome-mount
>         sources in GNOME CVS
>         > > > if you're interested.
>         > > 
>         > > Er... gnome-volume-manager uses the
>         volume.policy.desired_mount_point
>         > > attribibute, doesn't it? That comes from hald.
>         >
>         > No. g-v-m passes "" as the mount point when mounting volumes
>         ( e.g. in
>         > the case where gnome-mount is not installed on the system).
>         This (from
>         > what I understand) makes the hal mount script figure out
>         what it should
>         > use as the mount point itself (which may or may not use the
>         policy key 
>         > mentioned above, I have no idea).
>         
>         The HAL Mount() method uses 'volume.label' and falls back to
>         'disk'.
>         
>         Kay
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Un saludo,
> Alberto Ruiz
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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