Bug 386385

Summary: Automatically created mount points
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Sebastian Furdal <sfurdal>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Factory   
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Description Sebastian Furdal 2008-05-03 10:32:48 UTC 
With windows there is automatic mounting system. In Linux this is a problem, because we still living in the dark age of stricted privilages. Few years ago default user could not use floppy ! 

In the GNU/Linux user mostly defines mount points of hard drives partitions by him self. In the real world people want just use system. For example in KDE we have „media:/” and mount points in this point of view are not important any more. So maybe openSUSE should propose automatically create default mount points?

1. If a new disk appears or in the installation process yast2 should automatically mount those new partitions for example in:

/mnt/sda1
/mnt/sda2
/mnt/sdb1

etc.

This is a small problem but very important. If there is less to manual configure then more happy is the average user. Of course still with option to change mount point for advanced users.
Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2008-05-03 10:37:59 UTC 
you're talking about hotplug disks? Those should be generally ignored and are hotmounted from the desktop. Please describe your use case in more detail.
Comment 2 Sebastian Furdal 2008-05-03 12:10:53 UTC 
I meant disks connected directly through IDE or SATA.


But I think hotpluging in the same why would be a good  idea. Information like this disk is "seagate", "samsung" or "kingston"  would be available trough "media:/" - and not used as a mount name.

This enhancement could make system more clearly.
Comment 3 Arvin Schnell 2008-05-05 09:11:27 UTC 
I don't understand the request. Anyway, a feature and not a bug.
Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2008-05-05 11:02:14 UTC 
I don't understand it either actually. Hotplug devices (you talk about media:/) are created under /media automatically and they are fine there.