[Thunar-dev] thunar-volman 0.1.0

[Benedikt Meurer]

Mathias Brodala wrote:
>>>> $ cat /proc/mounts | grep flashdisk
>>>> /dev/flashdisk /media/flashdisk vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
>>> (But not as /dev/sda, of course.)
>> That's the problem: /dev/flashdisk and /dev/sda do not identify the same
>> device (i.e. one is a char device and the other's a block device, or the
>> rdev numbers do not match) and the device file paths are different. So
>> how should the software know that it's mounted?
>>
>> Just to be sure; post the output of ls -ld /dev/{sda,flashdisk}
> 
> But I alread told you[0] that /dev/flashdisk is just a symlink to /dev/sda
> provided by one of my custom udev rules. So it IS the same device, only known
> under an unstable (read: changes depending on the order I plug the devices in)
> and a more meaningful and stable identifier.

Well, if it's a symlink, then exo-mount-point should be able to locate
that... weird... post the output of ls -ld /dev/{sda,flashdisk}.

> Regards, Mathias

Benedikt