On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 12:15 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
OK, so I took a look at the GNOME "Disks" utility, which I
was finally
able to get to run without crashing, and as far as I can tell, it
doesn't resolve my main complaint with the new F17 behavior.
Yes, I can use the Disks utility to configure removable devices, e.g.,
my DVD drive, to mount on startup. But then it isn't going to mount
in /run/media/$USER, because there's no user logged in yet.
My concern, which I've explained repeatedly and I believe is quite
legitimate despite all of the flak I've taken for it here, is that the
behavior of a removable device that is already inserted when I log in
should be exactly the same as the behavior of a removable device that
I insert after logging in. As far as I can tell the Disks utility
can't achieve that. If I'm wrong, please explain to me exactly how I
should configure, e.g., my DVD drive in the Disks utility so that if
there's a DVD in the drive when I log in, it will be mounted
under /run/media/$USER automatically.
(And, while you're at it, explain to me why this shouldn't be the
default behavior, which I've yet to see anyone here explain, as far as
I recall.)
If you set a specific mount location for a device in that tool - i.e. in
fstab - it will be used even if the device is connected after login.
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