Supermount or not to Supermount

[scoopy]

Ok, it recently came up in a thread here, that supermount is more trouble than its worth and to just turn it off. So I finally decided to turn it off.

supermount -i disable

Now it seems I have to keep issueing commands,

[scoopy@localhost home]$ umount /dev/hdd

[scoopy@localhost home]$ eject cdrom2

and then again

[scoopy@localhost home]$ mount /dev/hdd

when I need to insert another cd and I still have to close konq to eject a cd.

 

I am confused on this issue. This seems like more work than when I had supermount enabled. Maybe I am doing it wrong... Can someone clear this up for me?

 

thanks,

[bvc]

I d/k the name of the app, (eject/mount? both?) but it allows you to mount/umount devices on the desktop. Anyone know the name/s?

 

Personally, I've always used SM w/o any prob.

[Ixthusdan]

I set up icons on my desktop and mount/eject from there. I mount every cd and eject it when I'm done. But I had odd problems with supermount on, particularly when I was installing software. I use urpmi in a console, and with supermount on, it would spend several minutes checking my cdrom drives before installing. I found that more irritating than issuing mount/unmount commands.

 

Supermount would be great if it worked.

[scoopy]

OK, setup an icon for both CD drives. Seems more my "gui" way of doing things, so we will try it this way for a while.

 

I did have a minor problem of an extra icon popping up when I inserted a disk, but went into KDE's control panel and unchecked option to show devices on desktop. That fixed that.

 

I been seeing the continuing saga of supermount since version 8.0/ 8.1 (its fixed/no its not), but being I haven't encountered a problem I knew was caused by supermount, I always left it in its default state.

[kmack]

I disabled supermount. Same as my car: I prefer a manual transmission. Guess it is a throw back to my 55 Chevy and Hurst Speedshifter days! 8)

 

But, K3b and MCC/Mandrake update/urpmi automagically mount and unmount without input from me, and since you do not need to mount music cd's there is little difference in my mind. The only time I have to mount/umount is when I have data or backup type cd's that I want to browse or use.

 

So, I keep it off and avoid the chance of wierd things that were happening when it was on. :)

[emh]

A nice KDE graphical utility for mounting and unmounting disks is called Kwikdisk.

 

You can find it in the menu under Configuration - Hardware.

 

Just simply click on "Kwikdisk", and it loads in your taskbar, and just right-click it when you want to mount or unmount something.

 

Now, for me, I don't have a problem with supermount, although I've disabled it for my parallel port zip drive, and I also have a digital camera. Kwikdisk is very useful for easily mounting both of these.

[spinynorman]

But I had odd problems with supermount on, particularly when I was installing software. I use urpmi in a console, and with supermount on, it would spend several minutes checking my cdrom drives before installing.

I had the same problem while updating in MCC, but now I insert a CD beforehand and it's much faster! :)

[SoulSe]

Mounting, unmounting and ejecting are the Linux way of doing things. Supermount aims to make Linux behave more lik *cough* windoze in that regard... but it hasn't been perfected yet.

 

My opinion is that if your supermount works, then leave it on, you can always turn it on and off whenever you need to. I leave mine on when in Mandrake, it's convenient to not have to mount things the whole time. It gave me a problem once while I was installing ut, so I disabled it, mounted my UT cd, installed it and then enabled it again.