Newbie question about HAL 0.5.x

Ikke eikke at eikke.com
Sun Aug 28 08:09:16 PDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 13:29 +0200, Davide Ferrari wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> sorry for my dumb question but: how does HAL 0.5.x work with removable media 
> since it seems that fstab-sync has been removed? I've just installed HAL 
> 0.5.4 on my system due to the upgrade to KDE 3.5alpha1 and I was used with 
> HAL 0.4.7 that when I plug my usb disk in, an entry was automagically added 
> to fstab permitting me to mout it even from consolle with a simple mount 
> command.
> Now I have to manually add the line by myself, otherwise it wouldn't obviously 
> work...is this supposed to be correct?
> I'm using Gentoo, and I've also installed the most recent pmount but nothing 
> seems to work out magically as in the "it just works" Project Utopia 
> philosophy.
> 
> TIA and sorry for my dumb question, but I think this is the place where I can 
> find the most expert people :)
> 
I guess kde3.5 calls mount and not pmount(-hal) then? You should get in
touch with the Gentopia guys, more specificly genstef on freenode
(#gentopia IIRC)

Ikke



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