On 2/13/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 14:49 +0000, Simon Andrews wrote: > You can still do this, but you now need to use gnome-mount rather than > mount. Don't be fooled by 'gnome' in the name, this is a command line > application which allows the mounting and unmounting of removable media > in the same way as they would have been automounted interactively within > gnome. It might have helped if there were some documentation about that. I see no man file, info file, and nothing useful for it in /usr/share/doc/gnome-mount*/ Why do programmers insist in useless README files? They usually have nothing that *needs* reading, and don't say anything about what you *need* to know. There's only gnome-mount --help (or --help-all). And I'm reluctant to try unknown programs with a --help option, some start doing something other than give you help information. > It's a bit of a pain getting used to the fact that this has changed, but > it's no harder than the old way once you've got used to it. Well, once we know how to use it, we could alias a shorter command name to it.
It expects different arguments to umount in any case. Assuming you'd manage to sanitise the mount point, "gnome-umount /media/cdrom" would fail with "gnome-mount 0.5". So not only did they forget to write any documentation, they also forgot the error messages. If you're lucky "gnome-umount -p /media/cdrom" will succeed (also with the message "gnome-mount 0.5"). But "gnome-umount -p /media/cdrom/" will fail. I'm sure gnome-mount is part of the journey to more intuative removable media handling, but it would be nice to have a sane umount back. Chris
