Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 17:51 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Having the drive plugged in when you boot should not cause problems. >> There is a coldplug routine that should do the same things as the >> hotplug routine. I am not sure if the drive would be mounted if the >> desktop was not running. There is probably a system setting to >> handle this, but I have not checked on it yet. When I get some free >> time, I will play with this, and let you know. I do know that HAL >> handles the mounting, but I have not looked into the changes from >> FC5 to FC6 yet. I believe that some users were having problems with >> USB drives that did not have a volume lable were not auto-mounting. > > You are quite right. I have given the USB drive a label, and it now > mounts when KDE starts, which is an improvement. > > Now the question is how to get it to mount at boot time. > > Do you know of a good introduction to udev and hal. I find a lot of the > stuff in the control files mysterious, for example: > $ cat 90-hal.rules > # pass all events to the HAL daemon > RUN+="socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event" > which I suppose passes a command to a daemon listening on a socket, but > what the daemon is (though probably hald) and where it listens I haven't > been able to determine. > > Thanks - jon > For udev, you can try /usr/share/doc/udev-095/writing_udev_rules/index.html I have not found any good documentation for HAL... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
