[Thunar-dev] thunar-volman 0.1.0

[Benedikt Meurer]

Mathias Brodala wrote:
>>>> I just released the first version of the Thunar Volume Manager. It adds
>>>> automatic management of removable drives and media to Thunar, without
>>>> adding another daemon to your desktop sessions. It requires Thunar
>>>> 0.5.1svn or above, HAL 0.5.0 or above and D-BUS 0.32 or above.
>>> Just to make sure: Will thunar-volman know to mount, say, my digital camera
>>> based on its entry in /etc/fstab?
>>>
>>> I’ve created some udev rules and specific directories to dedicate each of my usb
>>> devices its own symlink under /dev and directory to mount. This way I don’t have
>>> to mess with /dev/sdXn devices, whereas X and n are almost always different,
>>> depend on the order I plug devices in.
>> thunar-volman uses exo-mount. Since HAL refuses to mount fstab entries,
>> exo-mount will use plain old "mount" command to mount the device. So,
>> yes, that should work. It's exactly the same as mounting devices from
>> Thunar.
> 
> And the latter does not work for me. *That* was the reason I asked. I was sure
> that I already described this, but anyway:
> 
> I plug in my Hama flashdisk for example. Thanks to hal+udev I now have the
> following entries in /dev:
> 
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2007-01-15 22:46 /dev/flashdisk -> sda
>   brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 0 2007-01-15 22:46 sda
> 
> But Thunar shows only „sda“ in its sidepanel instead of „flashdisk“. We already
> discussed this somewhere else and you (or maybe someone else, I’m not sure) told
> me that this was a hal problem. I remember sending a mail regarding this to the
> hal ML but never received an answer.
> 
> So, what will thunar-volman do? Will it show/mount the device as sda or flashdisk?

That seems to be a rather old version of Thunar. Update to the latest
SVN version, that should fix the problem.

> Regards, Mathias

Benedikt