Re: [Ranger-users] automount usb

[Miodrag Milic]

I will check it out. Thanks F.

I see its replacement for udisks. 

I installed yesterday udisks-glue which works from the box (no configuration required except starting up udisks-glue as a service or on desktop/shell start-up).

The only complaint I have so far is that it doesn't auto-unmount after timeout, like autofs, which means that some OSes may complain that USB disks have corrupted FS (unless mount option "sync" solves that, don't know yet). Quick glance on udevil tells me that it doesn't auto unmount too.

Is there any particular reason to use udevil over udisks-glue, apart from lower number of dependencies which are all probably already installed on most systems? Both are done in C and udisks is already installed on my Ubuntu system as it is, AFAIK, used by Gnome for automounting.

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:50 AM, F. <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I use udevil and devmon (same package) with ranger it's very very great
association.

udevil is the wrapper, devmon permit automount (what you want).
Please take a look, sur you'll find answer:

http://ignorantguru.github.com/udevil/
http://igurublog.wordpress.com/downloads/script-devmon/

F.


Roman Z. <address@hidden> a écrit le 2013-03-17 19:09:37 +0100 :

> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 06:29:20PM +0100, Miodrag Milić wrote:
> > So if you argue its not a job of file manager, then why all those file
> > managers implemented such features ? I understand your opinion tho,
> > and it looks perfect for plugin.
>
> I don't know enough about nautilus or thunar to give you a good answer
> on that.  I guess they put that feature into the FM on the assumption
> that the user will not use any other file manager or mounting manager,
> and because those FMs run all the time, even when you don't see them.
> But this is a job for a separate, FM-independent program that runs in
> the background.
>
> I found a list of such programs here:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Automount#Automounting_udisks_wrappers
>
> > Thanks for suggestions and your own implementations. I dont think
> > Roman's solution is reasonable for situations I described - random usb
> > disks from colegues every few days... I will examine udisk glue in
> > detail.
>
> Well, I use it for precisely that use case.  It's just a matter of
> pressing "gm", navigating to the mount point and pressing the key
> binding for ":shell mount %f".  But it's up to you, of course :)
>
> Roman
>
>