[nzlug] Hotswapping and sata drives...

Steve Holdoway steve at greengecko.co.nz
Mon Dec 3 15:13:51 NZDT 2007


On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:10:16 +1300
Vik Olliver <vik at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:

> I got bitten by that on my Gutsy upgrade. Automounts were owned by ivman
> and I couldn't unmount them.
> 
> I've bodged it by disabling ivman in init.d and running it in my KDE
> Autostart whence it mounts things with my userID. Better suggestions
> welcomed!
> 
> Vik :v)
Wouldn't the judicious use of /etc/group be a simpler solution?? 

Although tbh there is no such user unless ivman is installed... and according to the docs, ivman should be run *both* from an init.d scrips and your session login.

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Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz>



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