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On 06/13/2012 16:17, Curt Dox wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Ken
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Mount tray initial state after boot:<br>
<br>
The mount tray lists sata-device-0 through
sata-device-7.<br>
<br>
A mouse over of each of these mount tray entries results
in a tool-tip<br>
like pop up with the message:<br>
<br>
unmounted - may be removed.<br>
<br>
Right clicking on a mount tray list item does not
produce any action.<br>
<br>
Left clicking on a mount tray list item either results
in the mounting<br>
of a partition or raises an exception with the message:<br>
<br>
The filesystem on this device is unknown and cannot be
mounted at this<br>
time.<br>
<br>
Inserting a usb flash drive usually results in the
addition of one<br>
device name to the mount tray item list. When a usb
flash drive is<br>
inserted it is usually assigned the name:<br>
<br>
usb-device-0<br>
<br>
This device name is also found on the gnome desktop as:<br>
<br>
/media/USB-Device-0, a directory name; the contents of
this directory<br>
is usually empty.<br>
<br>
Rarely, the device and its contents are mounted.<br>
<br>
<br>
About the nomenclature used to describe mount tray
functionality:<br>
<br>
I don't have seven sata devices on my laptop. I do have
one 500 GB sata<br>
disk currently with seven partitions.<br>
<br>
I know what mount tray is talking about because I've
formatted the<br>
drive and the partitions in use manually.<br>
<br>
I think it would be clearer if mount tray indicated
both<br>
device and partition number.<br>
<br>
Usage case<br>
<br>
Were there two sata drives on my laptop the current
method of<br>
describing entries could quickly become very confusing;
for a desktop<br>
workstation, which might have several drives, I don't
think this method<br>
would allow a user to quickly navigate to a particular
partition and<br>
mount it with any degree of certainty.<br>
<br>
Additional configuration options:<br>
<br>
Is it possible to configure mount tray and tell it about
a file system<br>
after the system is running - if not - please consider
this as a right<br>
click option for a mount tray list item or a
configuration option for<br>
mount tray on the pcbsd control panel.<br>
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Since the mount tray is a brand-new utility, we are still
working out some of the bugs in it.<br>
Could you close the tray app, then run "sudo pc-mounttray"
from a terminal and let me know what kind of terminal outputs
you are getting when you try to mount your USB drives?<br>
Also, I am currently working on a better device-name detection
method for the tray as well. As such, the next snapshot should
have it working better.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the report!<span class="HOEnZb"><font
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PC-BSD/iXsystems</font></span>
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Hello..<br>
<br>
I have not extensively tested this feature, however, one idea does
spring to mind after reading this. I am uncertain exactly how best
to implement it, whether a preferences setting or nested tree, or
some sort of combination. My thought is to enable 'mount by
physical device' as an option along with 'mount by
slice/partition.' This way, the average user will get an expected
result (especially assuming an automatic mount is enabled) and BSD
folks may also have their method.<br>
<br>
Thanks for your efforts!<br>
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I am not sure that I understand exactly what you are referring to
here. Say for example that you have a hard-drive (ada0) with 3
partitions (ada0s1,ada0s2,ada0s3). Do you mean that you would want
an option to mount ada0 in addition to mounting ada0s* partitions?<br>
Right now it check for partitions once it detects a hard-drive
(ada0), and if there are no partitions (ada0s*) it lets you mount
the disk directly (ada0).<br>
<br>
Disclaimer: The "ada0" label is just for example purposes, not a
limitation of what devices can be detected by the program<br>
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~~ Ken Moore ~~
PC-BSD/iXsystems</pre>
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