Bug 160635

Summary:	Add support for nfs/smb share with fstab entry in remote:/
Product:	[Unmaintained] solid	Reporter:	David <StormByte>
Component:	libsolid-fstab	Assignee:	Kevin Ottens <ervin>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ervin, jim
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	solid-hardware list nonportableinfo output

Description David 2008-04-10 02:57:52 UTC

Version:           svn (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

Between all of powerfull features of dolphin, is the ability to easyly mount/unmount extern media (like cdroms, usb sticks, etc..) in the side panel, which has a list of favourite places, removable media, and non automatic mountable  items of /etc/fstab (those with "noauto" in its mount options)

This leads me to think that dolphin (or some part of kde or dbus), already reads /etc/fstab for gathering information about partitions.

So I have two ideas to improve dolphin (and specially that bar):

1.- Exclude non user mountable media (that media without user in its mount options line), as it always lists my /boot partition for example, which is not user mountable, only mountable by root. So it is a real nonsense to have that kind of partition listed in there by default which made me to hid it from that list.

2.- (and the more important): Handle NFS shared folders via dolphin to rapidly mount and unmount that folders via this bar. Specially when I have those already listed in /etc/fstab, and with users included into its mount options. Dolphin simply ignores those shared folders and I have to mount them manually (which is not a real problem, but I am suggesting to handling them via dolphin for convenience).

So, how about these ideas?

Comment 1 David 2008-04-10 03:08:30 UTC

Ok, maybe it needs to be reassigned as it is not only a dolphin issue, since the "new device notifier" also has same issue for #1...

Comment 2 Peter Penz 2008-04-10 07:50:46 UTC

Thanks for your suggestion, I've added Kevin Ottens to CC and have reassigned it to kdelibs.

Comment 3 Kevin Ottens 2008-04-11 17:47:08 UTC

For #1 it shouldn't happen the way the code is done, and for instance here my /home partition is not shown. I somehow suspect a deployment issue on your side maybe regarding HAL.

For #2, the design decision for now is to have those inside the "Network" shares view. For now it's not done, so I'm moving that report on kioslave/remote instead.

Comment 4 David 2008-04-11 20:30:29 UTC

My /home partition is not shown either, nor my /data partition, only /boot partition is shown despite it is not user mountable.

My /etc/fstab is:
/dev/sda1               /boot           ext3            defaults,noauto                                 1 2
/dev/sda2               none            swap            sw                                              0 0
/dev/sda3               /               reiserfs        defaults,noatime,rw                             0 1
/dev/sda5               /home           xfs             defaults,noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8           0 2
/dev/sda6               /data           reiserfs        defaults,noatime                                0 2
#/dev/sr0               /mnt/cdrom      auto            defaults,user,noauto,iocharset=iso8859-15,ro    0 0
192.168.1.100:/data/Anime       /mnt/nfs/Anime  nfs     defaults,rw,noauto,users                        0 0
192.168.1.100:/data/mldonkey    /mnt/nfs/mldonkey nfs   defaults,rw,noauto,users                        0 0
192.168.1.100:/data/Pelis       /mnt/nfs/Pelis  nfs     defaults,rw,noauto,users                        0 0
none                    /proc           proc            defaults                                        0 0
none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs           defaults                                        0 0

So why it is listing /boot ? It is the only not user mountable partition which is not mounted (noauto)

Comment 5 Kevin Ottens 2008-04-11 23:00:43 UTC

Le Friday 11 April 2008, David a écrit :
> So why it is listing /boot ? It is the only not user mountable partition
> which is not mounted (noauto)


Odd, please provide your "solid-hardware list nonportableinfo" output.

Comment 6 David 2008-04-12 04:18:38 UTC

Created attachment 24305 [details]
solid-hardware list nonportableinfo output

Comment 7 Kevin Ottens 2008-05-09 23:59:14 UTC

OK, for #1 it's indeed because /boot is not mounted on your system. Actually the underlying system doesn't give us the mountpoint of a device if it's not mounted (no we're not reading the fstab). Could you please report that as a separate bug so that we can have the proper discussion there? (bug, not wish item)

I'm renaming the current one to focus only on the NFS/SMB shares from the fstab.

Comment 8 David 2009-12-09 21:46:20 UTC

Any news on this front? I have read in the maillist that some people are arguing to have this issue too..

Comment 9 Kevin Ottens 2011-07-20 06:15:58 UTC

Should be solved now as we have a fstab backend dealing with NFS and SMB shares in libsolid now.