libhal_volume_get_mount_point not returning mountpoint

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Tue May 10 07:24:03 PDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 23:24 +0000, Edwin Schepers wrote:
> Hi,
> It seems that for my usb mass storage device, I don get a mountpoint on 
> calling libhal_volume_get_mount_point. However, my fstab does contain the 
> mountpoint ( /media/usbdisk ). Is this correct behaviour or is something 
> wrong ?

The said function will only return the location if the volume is
actually mounted. Note that an /etc/fstab entry is not sufficient -
someone may mount the volume in another location.

Hope this helps,
David


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