tag 507038 +confirmed
thanks
Hello,
Matthias Heinz wrote:
> The first thing is that - if you use an esata drive - the kernel does not
> recognize that this drive is removable. Which why there's the allow file, i
> guess.
I'm curious: does that mean that the /sys/block/dev/removable is 0 ?
> But there's a problem with it, you just can add real device names here, no
> links like /dev/disk/by-id/... or /dev/disk/by-uuid/ or else. But that is an
> important feature, if you use multiple plugable mass storage devices, where
> the device names change pretty often.
Hmmm. I see the problem: I do no `realname` expansion when I parse
/etc/pmount.allow. Doing so should solve the problem. And I guess that
is really necessary.
Thanks for pointing out the problem !
Cheers,
Vincent
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Vincent, listening to Were Gonna Groove (Led Zeppelin)
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