Hi,<br><br>I'm trying to understand about mounting and what role XFCE/thunar plays in it and how to control it. <br><br>1)
Who does what? What does HAL do, what does thunar (volman) do? And I take it
that the Places panel-plugin is just a shortcut for the thunar
functionality?<br><br>2) Is there a way to control the (auto)mounting
of external filesystems same way as /etc/fstab controls those mounted
at boot? (i.e mountpoint, owner, options, etc.)?<br><br>3) I'd like to
be able to control some simple mounting/unmounting operations by way of
shortcut keys and incorporate some functionality into scripts, e.g. toggle mount status for drive X, mount-if-not-currently-mounted, drop all external
mounts etc. Using umount and mount just doesn't seem to integrate well
with thunar's mounting: manually mounting a drive that is registered as a
drive in the places plugin seems to confuse it (directing thunar to the mount point results in a neverending load). Also, I can unmount whatever thunar has (auto)mounted
using umount, but umount requires root privileges and the places
plugin doesn't. So is there a way
to do these operations by sending commands to thunar/places/HAL (as I
said in the first question, I'm really not sure what does what)?<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br>mads<br>