Hello all, what's the new mess around mounting devices? Or what didn't I understand properly? I've read all FC5 threads around /etc/fstab, mount, udev, hald, gnome-mount, autofs, GNOME removable drives and media options.. and if I've well understood, it's not recommended (read: not possible to make it work properly) to define your usual mounts to /etc/fstab and (auto-)`mount` them but we should to use hald for this now? Also, I don't see how using gnome-mount could sound logical if I boot in non-graphical mode.. am I wrong? Using the fstab/mount way, I was able to decide what is auto-mounted or not (in addition to the GNOME settings), and to choose the mount options. W/ FC5, it seems that I should not use that way since I was getting dialogs telling <me> that <me> is not able to mount or umount (<me> should be root), but for half of those dialogs, the device could be mounted or umounted anyway (impressive). I tried w/ or w/o sticky bit to mount/umount programs, no difference. Great, so I've set up some custom hal policy rules to get my external drives to mount properly.. but what? It's not possible anymore (read: it was) to override the mount options with hal? What happened? Isn't it possible to mount external devices as non-root user? Who decided this? Where has the desktop philosophy gone? The only way I've found is to allow <me> to `sudo mount`, and set up a script that I call from nautilus over the mounted device icon to remount it as exec (IOW: mount -o remount,exec).. Shame. Anyone who better understand all those auto-mount mechanisms than I do? Or is everything messed up now? :-) Regards, -- wwp
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