xfce and mounting

[Mads Michelsen]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Tino Keitel
<tino.keitel+xfce at tikei.de<tino.keitel%2Bxfce at tikei.de>>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 20:04:11 +0200, Mads Michelsen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to understand about mounting and what role XFCE/thunar plays
> in
> > it and how to control it.
> >
> > 1) Who does what? What does HAL do, what does thunar (volman) do? And I
> take
> > it that the Places panel-plugin is just a shortcut for the thunar
> > functionality?
>
> AFAIK HAL detects new devices, and generates a dbus message. The dbus
> session of the user that is logged in processes the dbus message, and
> sends it to Thunar. Thunar then uses libexo to mount/umount/eject
> devices (see the exo-mount manpage).
>
> > 2) Is there a way to control the (auto)mounting of external filesystems
> same
> > way as /etc/fstab controls those mounted at boot? (i.e mountpoint,
> owner,
> > options, etc.)?
>
> You can create own fdi files for HAL, but exo is somewhat limited when
> it comes to the usage of HAL properties.
>
> > 3) I'd like to be able to control some simple mounting/unmounting
> operations
> > by way of shortcut keys and incorporate some functionality into scripts,
> > e.g. toggle mount status for drive X, mount-if-not-currently-mounted,
> drop
> > all external mounts etc. Using umount and mount just doesn't seem to
> > integrate well with thunar's mounting: manually mounting a drive that is
> > registered as a drive in the places plugin seems to confuse it
> (directing
> > thunar to the mount point results in a neverending load). Also, I can
> > unmount whatever thunar has (auto)mounted using umount, but umount
> requires
> > root privileges and the places plugin doesn't. So is there a way to do
> these
> > operations by sending commands to thunar/places/HAL (as I said in the
> first
> > question, I'm really not sure what does what)?
>
> Just use exo-mount in your scripts.
>
> Regards,
> Tino
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Thanks fot the replies. A couple of new concepts there, but at least I know
where to look now. Thanks again.
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