Automatic mount/unmount CDs

[Shahar Weiss]

Paul M. Bucalo wrote:

>On Saturday 25 October 2003 06:43 am, Shahar Weiss graced me with:
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>>Olivier Fourdan wrote:
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>>>Actually, it's not the task of the user interface, but rather
>>>automount from the kernel.
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>>>Cheers,
>>>Olivier.
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>>>On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 12:19, Moritz Heiber wrote:
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>>>>On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 12:08:00 +0200
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>>>>Shahar Weiss <sweiss3 at gawab.com> wrote:
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>>>>>Hello. I was wondering, is it possible to make XFCE4
>>>>>mount/unmount a CD automatically?
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>>>>xfmountdev4 does that task.
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>>>>>Shahar.
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>>>>Bye,
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>>>>Moritz
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>>I searched for xfmountdev4 and from the short decription there I'm
>>not sure if that's what I need. What I meant was a way to
>>automatically mount a CD when inserting it to the drive and
>>automatically unmount it as I press the eject button.
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>>Or maybe I misunderstood myself?
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>>Thanks in advance,
>>Shahar.
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>What distro are you using? Red Hat (and maybe some others) use 
>'autofs' to do just that. As soon as you put in a CD its sensed and 
>is now mounted. The same with removal. Mandrake uses 'supermount', 
>same principle. Are you hoping to see an icon on the Desktop that 
>dynamically changes its 'looks' to show when a CD is mounted or not? 
>As Olivier stated, this is a function of the way you have your O/S 
>setup to deal with ROM's. If your CD's are not automounting outside 
>of XFce, you should manage that feat in the O/S, not XFce. 
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>Paul
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I'm using RedHat, I'll check autofs out. I'm pretty new to linux, and 
because Gnome automounts them automatically I assumed it has something 
to do with the DE rather than with the distro itself.

Thanks for all the replies and tips,
Shahar.