Ignoring fixed partitions which are not mounted in /media

Frederic Crozat fcrozat at mandriva.com
Wed Apr 18 02:24:28 PDT 2007


Le mercredi 18 avril 2007 à 10:52 +0200, Danny Kukawka a écrit :
> On Mittwoch, 18. April 2007, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > in Ubuntu we want to ignore volumes which come from non-removable
> > devices and are mounted to a place different than /media, since they
> > (1) only appear as clutter to users (such as /boot, /home, or /usr)
> > and (2) it's usually a bad idea to unmount them with gnome-mount.
> > 
> > For this we apply a rule to 20-storage-methods.fdi (in the
> > volume.fsusage == "filesystem" block where the other special cases
> > like Apple Bootstrap are handled):
> [..]
> > This problem does not seem to be special to Ubuntu to me. How do other
> > distros solve this, perhaps more elegantly? If this is a common need,
> > can we find a common solution which can be integrated upstream?
> 
> On SUSE we use the attached patch since ages.

This patch has been in fedora (and mandriva) for ages too :)

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at mandriva.com>
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