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[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 23:02, Khairil Yusof wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 04:42:19PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>  
> > Once the volumes are mounted, they will show up.  That should have
> > worked for a long time.  However, I was trying to add the ability of
> > putting user-mountable volumes (e.g. CD-ROM) on the desktop before they
> > are mounted (giving the user the option of mounting them from the
> > desktop).  This is not working for some reason.
> 
> Here's what I got:
> 
> User mountable drives show up in the Computer folder, and double
> clicking on them does try to mount the drives.

Ah!  Don't I feel stupid.  I was so used to the way it worked in GNOME
2.4, I never thought about the new spacial design.  Thanks for
clarifying.

> 
> Apart for vfs syctl, in fstab, I had to fill in the full path to my user
> mounted dir.
> 
> /dev/da1s1 /home/kaeru/mnt/camera msdos rw,noauto 0 0

Right.  This is expected.

> 
> I can't however create any type of link to it on the desktop. It fails
> with a "Unsupported Operation" on a file operation message.

It may be due to the special VFS type of the pre-mounted volume.

Joe

> 
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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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