[vox-tech] external HD

[Donald Greg McGahan]

Dmitriy wrote:

>On Monday 21 March 2005 10:35, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
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>>Ah, you must be using Fedora 3.  Fedora 3 has someone neat deamon
>>running that detects when a usb mass storage device is plugged in,
>>creates a mount point in /media, AND automatically edits /etc/fstab.
>>That part is desktop independent.  You can then create a desktop device
>>icon in KDE that mounts and umounts the device.
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>Or maybe just Gnome. That could be Gnome Volume Manager. I think it's been 
>part of gnome since 2.8, but not too sure. 
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>It uses HAL/D-bus to listen to various HAL events and mount new devices or 
>download pics from the camera,play a CD/DVD,burn a CD, etc...
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>I haven't seen any stuff from KDE doing HAL/D-bus integration.
>But then again I haven't really kept up with what KDE does these days.
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>Fedora might have some other daemon that does similar thing, maybe with less 
>features.
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So seems the best thing for me is to stay away from hopping between 
Gnome and KDE. A sound KISS solution.
Donald Greg McGahan
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