[vdr] Re: Tip: use automount as a better autofs/supermount!

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thorsten Schnebeck" <thorsten.schnebeck@gmx.net>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 12:53 AM
Subject: [vdr] Tip: use automount as a better autofs/supermount!


> Hi!
>
> I played some hours with my living room movie-pc to find a better way for
> handling the dvd drive. After some frustrating tests with autofs and not
that
> good experiences with the supermount kernel patch I remembered the autorun
> program.
>
> I think autorun fits all our needs for disk handling on standalone media
pcs.
>
> You get it from
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22723
>
> You need a  fstab-setup like:
> /dev/dvd         /mnt/dvd iso9660  noauto,ro,user,exec  0 0
>
> and start autorun at the end of your system-boot procedure, in gentoo
linux
> its in /etc/conf.d/local.start:
>
> /usr/bin/autorun -m /dev/dvd&
> /usr/local/bin/runvdr -s /usr/local/bin/vdrshutdown&
>
> so its just before you start vdr.
>
> Now mounting/unmounting of your dvd-drive is event driven: Your
CD-directory
> is mounted when you access your disk and you get your disk when you press
the
> eject button.
>

As VDR mounts CDROM/DVD when accessing and a eject also does an umount, what
for do you need an automounter?

Rene




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