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On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 15:58 -0700, Mark wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Labels/UUIDs are not merely preference. They can be *necessary</FONT>*
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Take my case - laptop travels everywhere - niece's camera, colleague's usb memory stick, daughter's boyfriend's usb hd, and so on.<BR>
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Whatever the technical implementation, let me, with some sense of humour, describe a typical laptop night at my house:<BR>
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Niece says: Martin, look at these cool pictures. Plug in usb camera.<BR>
Daughter's bf: can you transfer this code from my hdd, compile it and see what gives. thanks, dude. unplug camera, plug usb hdd<BR>
Daughter: Yung Min has a paper in German, can you correct the grammar and style? unplug hdd, plug usb stick...<BR>
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This should all occur with no other user knowledge than the drive becomes visible, accessible via konqueor, nautilus, or whatever, one views, transfers, opens files, edits documents, returns hw to original owner with corrected term paper, compiled binary, and/or some emotional sanity intact.<BR>
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Mounting drives was necessary in my day, because one, literally physically mounted large disks onto spindles. <BR>
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Time has come for someone to make usb drives work as intended, so it might as well be mika. <IMG SRC="cid:1157415327.4229.14.camel@mylap1" ALIGN="middle" ALT=";)" BORDER="0"> <BR>
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In my case, actually, I simply have an embarrassing entry in fstab, which with file and command simply functions so far.<BR>
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For sysadmins, I have no idea, but for people like me, dumb endusers, we need to automount whatever drive comes to our laptops wherever and whenever needed. <BR>
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Or rid ourselves of pesky kids and friends....<BR>
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Best,<BR>
M<BR>
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