Re: [rox-devel] Re: Idea: .DirInfo.xml

[Tristan A. M. <the...@gm...>]

On 30/10/05, Jonatan Liljedahl <th...@ho...> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:59:09 +0200
> Alexander Wagner <a.wagner@NOTVALIDphysik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>
> > In gmane.comp.desktop.rox.devel, you wrote:
> > > Here's an idea regarding telling ROX about mountpoint containers.
...
> The thing is I want to avoid editing /etc/fstab. I want to use HAL to
> create mountpoints in /media and a user volume manager to pop up the
> icons on a rox-panel. But without the mountpoints in fstab, we need a
> way to let HAL tell ROX about the mountpoints. fstab-sync can be used to
> update /etc/fstab automagically, but I don't think that's a great idea,
> messing with such systemfiles automagically...

What's wrong with just looking at the output of 'mount', or (I *think*
better) /etc/mtab---which IIRC is a table of all current mount-points?
I suspect something to do with "pmount" (which I know nothing about),
but perhaps it leaves some evidence that it needs to be punmounted
there?

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Tristan