thunar-volman 0.1.0

[Benedikt Meurer]

Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hello Benedikt.
> 
>> I just released the first version of the Thunar Volume Manager. It adds
>> automatic management of removable drives and media to Thunar, without
>> adding another daemon to your desktop sessions. It requires Thunar
>> 0.5.1svn or above, HAL 0.5.0 or above and D-BUS 0.32 or above.
> 
> Just to make sure: Will thunar-volman know to mount, say, my digital camera
> based on its entry in /etc/fstab?
> 
> I’ve created some udev rules and specific directories to dedicate each of my usb
> devices its own symlink under /dev and directory to mount. This way I don’t have
> to mess with /dev/sdXn devices, whereas X and n are almost always different,
> depend on the order I plug devices in.

thunar-volman uses exo-mount. Since HAL refuses to mount fstab entries,
exo-mount will use plain old "mount" command to mount the device. So,
yes, that should work. It's exactly the same as mounting devices from
Thunar.

> Regards, Mathias

Benedikt