<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Ken Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken@pcbsd.org" target="_blank">ken@pcbsd.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 06/15/2012 02:52, Curt Dox wrote:
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<div> 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 Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken@pcbsd.org" target="_blank">ken@pcbsd.org</a>></span>
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<div>On 06/13/2012 06:15, <a href="mailto:user10508@gmail.com" target="_blank">user10508@gmail.com</a>
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initial state after boot:<br>
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The mount tray lists sata-device-0 through
sata-device-7.<br>
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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>
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The filesystem on this device is unknown and
cannot be mounted at this<br>
time.<br>
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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>
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usb-device-0<br>
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This device name is also found on the gnome
desktop as:<br>
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/media/USB-Device-0, a directory name; the
contents of this directory<br>
is usually empty.<br>
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Rarely, the device and its contents are
mounted.<br>
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About the nomenclature used to describe
mount tray functionality:<br>
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I don't have seven sata devices on my
laptop. I do have one 500 GB sata<br>
disk currently with seven partitions.<br>
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I know what mount tray is talking about
because I've formatted the<br>
drive and the partitions in use manually.<br>
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I think it would be clearer if mount tray
indicated both<br>
device and partition number.<br>
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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>
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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>
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Thanks for the report!<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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Hello..<br>
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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>
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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>
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Disclaimer: The "ada0" label is just for example purposes,
not a limitation of what devices can be detected by the
program
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If a device has multiple partitions, it would be nice to set a
preference that all those partitions would automatically be
mounted upon attachment. The reverse of this preference would
be that the specific partition(s) to mount is user-chosen at
attachment time while all identified/mountable partitions are
shown (about how it occurs in KDE). <br>
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I am not sure what effect mounting ada0 would have, if that
device has ada0s1, ada0s2, and ada0s3. However, if there is a
difference between mounting ada0 versus mounting all of its
partitions, then I guess I'd have to think some more.<br>
<br>
My thinking is, that generally, were I using Windows, and I
insert a usb device, the expectation would be that all
partitions are mounted automatically. However, this may not be
the assumed result for many BSD users. Assuming this device
can be uniquely identified, device specific actions could also
be configured for automation..<br>
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I hope I have not muddled it worse.<br>
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Basically, you want the option to set specific devices/partitions to
automatically mount upon detection, rather than requiring all
devices/partitions to wait for the user to click on them before they
mount. Is this a fair summary?<div class="im"><br>
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<br></blockquote></div>Yes, finally in simplest terms :)<br>