[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000104]: show automount (autofs) devices in xffm

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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000104
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Reporter:                   denis.prost
Handler:                    
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000104
Category:                   xffm
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     acknowledged
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Date Submitted:             2004-02-01 08:39 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-02-17 13:29 GMT
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Summary:                    show automount (autofs) devices in xffm
Description: 
I use autofs for my CD-Rom and floppy. The nice thing is that I don't have
to care about (un)mounting. But the bad thing is that they are not
diplayed in the xffm fstab branch any more. Would it be possible to add a
special branch for devices manages by autofs ?
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 edscott - 2004-02-01 16:19 GMT 
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How do you configure devices to be managed by autofs?

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 steelman - 2004-02-06 17:17 GMT 
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Main configuration file is /etc/auto.master which defines autofs
mountpoints
(directories mounted as autofs filsystem). Each mountpoint is described by
separate file. auto.master file is not used by any daemon, only by
startupscript so it _may_ be convenient xffm does not use it either but
has it's own list of autofs(5) files.

More precise information available at:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=automount&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=SuSE+Linux%2Fi386+8.2&format=html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=auto.master&sektion=5&apropos=0&manpath=SuSE+Linux%2fi386+8.2
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=autofs&apropos=0&sektion=5&manpath=SuSE+Linux%2Fi386+8.2&format=html

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 dannym - 2004-02-15 13:23 GMT 
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denis, as a quick workaround, I believe you can add the directories when
mounted to "Book" branch of xffm. When clicking on the book entry, it
should mount ;)

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 edscott - 2004-02-15 23:13 GMT 
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And you can save your bookmarks to a file, so that running "xfbook4
[bookname]" would open up your automount directories.

Let us know if this approach works, or what problems arise...

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 denis.prost - 2004-02-17 13:29 GMT 
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Hi,

Thanks for your help. 
I tried what you said :
1) open xffm (4.0.2)
2) insert my floppy disk
3) goto /auto/floppy => it opens my floppy contents under xffm
4) drag the floppy icon onto the bookmarks icon => floppy is added to
bookmarks

But then, if I close my bookmarks folder, then eject my floppy disk, then
open my bookmarks
folder, the floppy icon is'nt there anymore, and I can't get it back, even
If I reinsert my floppy disk. And If I try to recreate a bookmark to
/auto/floppy with drag and drop, xffm complains that /auto/floppy is
already in my bookmarks (but I can't see it).
I guess what is puzzling to xffm is that /auto/floppy is a sometimes
existant, sometimes non-existant directory.