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

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The following bug has been CLOSED
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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000104
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Reporter:                   denis.prost
Handler:                    edscott
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000104
Category:                   xffm
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
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Date Submitted:             2004-02-01 08:39 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-05-16 02:02 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.

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 edscott - 2004-04-10 01:56 GMT 
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Finally got to testing the automount stuff. You need to create symlinks to
the automount directory. When you open the symlink with xffm, the OS does
the automount thing. You can put the symlinks into the bookmarks and they
will not dissappear as the automount directory. Creation of symlinks is
recomended on various sites on the web and xffm tested OK with
symlink-automount combination.