Ignoring fixed partitions which are not mounted in /media

[Doug Goldstein]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 18:24 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
>>     volume.is_firmware_partition
>>     (I had a few other examples in mind but I can't remember
>>      them right now. Ideas?)
> 
> volume.is_system_backup_partition
> 
> This is common with Lenovo laptops and Asus PC's (and other OEMs) where
> one partion is about one 1Gb in size and just has a single 800-900Mb
> restore iso. Not sure if it's useful to show this, or even to hide it.

I've seen Dell's with two. The restore/blah iso and then Dell's system
test utilities.


> 
>>    probably still keep support for volume.ignore around in
>>    Mount() to e.g. bail out on any attempt if volume.ignore
>>    is set.
>>
>>  - with PolicyKit, gnome-mount can now do stuff like this
>>    http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkit-take-3.png ; or
>>    http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkit-auth-other-programs.png
>>    (this is sorta/kind work in progress)
> 
> Rock!
> 
>> I plan to release 0.5.10 along with some useful PolicyKit release in no
>> more than 2-3 months. Would something like this work for everyone?
> 
> I'll start playing more with PolicyKit again after my exams.
> 
> Richard.
> 
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