Jonathan Ryshpan wrote on Wednesday 25 July 2007:
> If it is connected to the system at boot time, the device path should
> be created and the drive should be mounted immediately, i.e. BEFORE any
> user logs in.
What you want is to make HAL mount your device for you. I'm not an expert
for HAL but I use it for some purposes. Consider this mail as a
suggestion and improve it. :) You should have at least basic knowlege of
XML and shell scripts.
Place the following file into /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty.
Replace volume-id-here with the volume uuid of your partition. You can
get it for partition sdd3 as follows
hal-get-property --key volume.uuid --udi $(hal-find-by-property --key
block.device --string /dev/sdd3)
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="volume.uuid" string="volume-id-here">
<append key="info.callouts.add"
type="strlist">mountscript</append>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
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In /usr/lib/hal/scripts you have to place the script "mountscript" used
above.
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#!/bin/sh
gnome-mount -h $HAL_PROP_INFO_UDI
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This SHOULD mount your partition as soon as hal sees it. Maybe it is
possible to call HALs mount-method from the XML script directly. This
would make the shell script obsolete.
I heard a lot about ivman, which unfortunately is not a part of fedora
distribution. Ivman is a deamon which listens on the D-BUS. I can be run
system wide or per-user. It also can mount your partition and makes the
HAL XML script and the shell script obsolete, since it only needs its own
config file (also XML).
> Root should be able to unmount the drive, when it is mounted.
That is always the case. :)
> I assume this should be done by either udev or hal -- HOW?
UDEV is responsible for creating device nodes after the kernel modules
have been loaded by the autoloader.
--
Bye,
Adalbert
I don't care where I sit as long as I get fed. -- Calvin Trillin
