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  • From: Arjan Bouter <abouter AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] New ivman spell
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:54:49 +0100

A wiki page sounds good, this stuff looks interesting :)

Arjan


On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:28:44 +0100
Flavien Bridault <f.bridault AT fra.net> wrote:

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> > > Hi people !
> > >
> > > I just want to say that I added ivman spell to the latest test grimoire.
> > > Ivman is a daemon that allow automatic mounting of external devices. It
> > > can be compared to supermount or submount, but it is totally in
> > > userspace. It works well better as submount, which has some trouble with
> > > KDE, although I didn't manage to find why exactly.
> > >
> > > Such a spell is only for lazy people like me. I'm convinced that it will
> > > add some more magic power to my box ;-)
> > > But I know that a lot of people think that automatic mounting is EVIL,
> > > so
> > > feel free to still mount/umount your devices manually ;-)
> > >
> > > ++
> >
> > Yay... wanted this for a while... but was to lazy to get it going...
> > so please do tell how does one get this going... be detailed.
> > And I mean _*DETAILED*_
>
> Well...
> cast ivman
> And it should just work. :-)
> Note that smgl-messagebus, hald and ivmand scripts should have been started
> (sorcery should have asked you that...)
>
> ivmand uses the /etc/fstab entries to mount the devices. For example, you
> insert a cdrom in /dev/hda, ivmand launch the command mount /dev/hda. So
> you
> may have to edit the file /etc/ivman/IvmanConfigMappings.xml if you use
> symlink in your /etc/fstab on your devices (like /dev/cdrom->/dev/hda).
> This
> file is well commented. You have to indicate which real devices maps which
> symlink.
>
> This is the minimal configuration to get the stuff working. You can take a
> look at the /etc/ivman/IvmConfigActions.xml to do more advanced things
> (launch a dvd player when a dvd is inserted, etc...)
>
> The USB sticks mounting are still under developpment... I guess they have
> to
> deal with flushing the file system to the stick before the user savagely
> removed it...
>
> I hope I detailed enough ;-)
>
> Shall I do a small WIKI page for this ?
>
> --
> Flavien Bridault
> Source Mage GNU/Linux - Disk Guru
>
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>


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