[wplug] Project Utopia and /media -- WAS: Core 6 Package Manager Problem Resolved

[Bryan J Smith]

The Filesystem Heirarchy Standard (FHS) 2.3 defines /media for
removable media, so you can normally use it.

*BUT* when using a distro that puts /media directory is under the
automated control of various components, and you should
_never_ manually mount there.  The only thing you may do is manually
unmount things that are mounted
by those components.

Newer Fedora and Fedora-based distros are not the only
ones that use this approach, and its not even limited to GNOME centric
distros anymore as the approach is a FreeDesktop.ORG standard.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Burt E Reany <breany at csc.com>

Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:01:10 
To:b.j.smith at ieee.org, General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
Subject: RE: [wplug] Core 6 Package Manager Problem Resolved


  Sorry for a lower-level question; why not in /media? (or is that
distro-dependent for RH5 AS?)

Thanks





                                                                           
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"Weber, Lawrence A" <laweber at switch.com> wrote:
> Output of sbin/lsusb:
> Bus 001 Device 001 : ID 0000:0000
> CompactFlash device is plugged in with a card.
> I also noticed on this installation that my floppy drive will not
> mount:
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
> returns an error message that fd0 is not a block device.
> It is not in /etc/fstab yet.

First off, *NEVER* use "msdos" as type, use "auto" or "vfat" or you
can dork up the long filenames (among other things).

Secondly, "Project Utopia" does several things ...
A.  You *NEVER* want to mount in /media
B.  The device is now /dev/fd/*, and you want to let udev, dbus,
hotplug, gnome-vfs, etc... manage it

Read up on "Project Utopia" and what it does for you.



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