[Thunar-dev] Thunar and removable disks on firewire

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Thu Jan 18 15:52:07 CET 2007


Stavros Giannouris wrote:
>> Thanks for the tip. Now the disk is recognized as removable[1], but
>> still doesn't show up in thunar. What else should I look for?
>>
> By the way,
> - gnome-volume-manager mounts the volume automagically, even
> without the storage.removable attribute
> - After a bit of digging around, I found this bit, I don't know if it
> is relevant:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2005-October/003441.html
> -------
> Most USB devices aren't removable. Not in the HAL sense of the
> word at least. They are however hotpluggable, which the device is
> correctlymarked as.
> 
> * Removable: Media can be removed but device node remains.
> * Hotpluggable: Media cannot be removed without making the device node
> disappear.
> 
> Removable devices in Linux are things like floppys and cdroms. Most
> other things are hotpluggable.
> --------

I was pretty sure, I checked the "storage.hotplugged" value as well, but
that wasn't the case. svn up to get the fix.

Benedikt



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