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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