> On 11/25/06, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a removable USB drive on my system. When KDE starts an icon > > appears on the desktop that allows the drive to be mounted in the /media > > directory; as a side effect the directory /media/usb-disk/ is created on > > which to mount the drive. This is done by right clicking the icon and > > clicking on the desired action in the popup menu. > > > > There must be some way to have a shell script perform the same operation > > that clicking on the icon/popup line mount makes happen. What is it? > > > > If I create the directory /media/usb-disk and then "$ > > mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb-disk", everything works fine till I unmount > > the disk, as can be done using the icon; but then an attempt to remount > > the drive by clicking on the "Open" line in the popup fails with the > > message: > > The mount point '/media/usb-disk' is already occupied > > > > which is, of course, not correct. I think I've filed a bug on this, but > > I have so many bugs outstanding that I'm not sure. On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 21:29 -0500, Jacques B. wrote: > If I understand correctly, you mounted the USB device via command line > but unmounted it via the GUI? Unless I am mistaken that is not > permitted in gnome. I believe the last time I tried that it gave an > error saying it was mounted via command line therefore must be > unmounted the same way. Perhaps the same applies with KDE but KDE is > failing to give that message and thinks that it unmounted it. Check > your mount command after unmounting via KDE to see if it really is > unmounted or if KDE mistakenly believes it to be. Because that would > certainly cause the error you noted. The bug would be with KDE not > properly detecting that it was mounted via the command line and > therefore must be unmounted the same way (unless KDE upon detecting > that can unmounted it appropriately. > > I'm not clear what you want the script to do. If it's simply to mount > via the command line, then you simply put what you typed at the > command line into a script (you can technically omit the #!/bin/bash > for that case). To answer your first point, KDE does actually unmount a drive mounted by a mount command from the command line. However it does not remove the mount point, and the icon will not permit a drive to be mounted if the mount point already exists, whether or not something is mounted on it. You are correct that I want to mount the drive from the command line, but I want the command to do is to mount the drive *as*if* the drive had been mounted by using the icon. Once I know how to do this, I can put the command into a script to do what's wanted, which has to do with backing up my system. BTW: Although the icon appears on the desktop, there is no corresponding file in ~/Desktop. Does anyone know what's going on here? Thanks - jon
