Hotplug: no more fstab entries

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:05 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> David Zeuthen (david at fubar.dk) said: 
> > > Can I restore the old behaviour somehow?
> > 
> > Not really, no. But nothing prevents you from write an fstab-sync like
> > program yourself and submitting it to Fedora Extras.
> 
> That's a cheat, though - the introduction is removing functionality from
> the OS.

Strong disagreement. 

You can use gnome-mount and/or mount(1) - they work just fine and
gnome-mount will (at least in the future) do so much more than we could
ever do with the fstab-sync approach. KDE also got some stuff for this
but I don't follow KDE development very closely, sorry. 

You can also use dbus-send in conjunction with hal-find-by-property...
it's not exactly rocket science

        [davidz at daxter ~]$ dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal --print-reply /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_43F1_517C org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Unmount array:string:
        method return sender=:1.2 -> dest=:1.62
         uint32 0
        [davidz at daxter ~]$ dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal --print-reply /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_43F1_517C org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Mount string: string: array:string:
        method return sender=:1.2 -> dest=:1.65
         uint32 0
        
Seriously, if someone really cared about this they would sit down and
write two 20-lines shell script so you could do 'hal-mount /dev/sda1'
and 'hal-umount /dev/sda1'. I'm really tired of people complaining
without doing.

> This is all documented in the release notes, right?

If you think it's necessary.. feel free to add it.

    David