On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 19:35 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Dec 30, 2007 7:14 PM, David Zeuthen <davidz(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> 2. Tell such users to use comment=hidden in /etc/fstab entries for
> such drives and make gvfs honor this so a mount point is hidden
> if it matches such an /etc/fstab entry.
>
> Since this affects only the kind of people who have > 1 Linux distro
> installed (for dual- or tripple-booting with Windows and Mac OS X you
> actually want this. IMO ditto for dual booting with other Linux
> installations but apparently others don't think so), I think we should
> go for 2. Alex?
Is hiding all things defined in fstab not sufficient?
Don't think so and no need to make that assumption.
Do we need a a
new comment=hidden syntax?
The comment option is not exactly new: man 5 fstab
Are there reasonable usage cases where you
want things which are defined in fstab to be displayed in the user UI?
Yes. One example is the use of persistent device names (e.g. the device
links /dev/disk/by-*) to specify mount options that unprivileged
wouldn't be allowed to specify themselves (e.g. 'dev' or 'suid') or
to
force a mount point outside /media.
I would have thought anything listed in fstab would be preferred to
be hidable in the general case.
Then you'd just get complaints from people who disagree with that.
Everyone's a critic.
David