Bug 98965

Summary:	ivman/hal mounting without fstab entry?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael T <thayer>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) <genstef>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael T 2005-07-14 02:00:39 UTC

At present, ivman/hal will only automount on devices which are either 
hot-pluggable or have an fstab entry.  It might be nice if they were to 
auto-create entries for non-hotpluggable media (i.e. fixed CD-ROMs) which 
doesn't have an fstab entry as well.  Tradition aside, in many cases, an fstab 
entry is only really useful to decide where fixed media will be mounted into 
the mount tree.  People for whom it is important could still create an 
overriding fstab entry. 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-14 02:53:46 UTC

If you are requesting new features, ask upstream...

http://ivman.sourceforge.net/wiki/Support

Comment 2 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-14 05:07:03 UTC

Newer ivman releses depend on pmount to do exactly that .. pmount and newer
ivman are only available in the gentopia overlaay .. for reasons see the pmount
and hal bug.
Anyways this is really upstream, you should have mailed the ivman developer
about it.