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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/19/2015 06:49 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Den 2015-04-19 09:37, Nio Wiklund skrev:
>> ...
> Hi again Israel,
>
> I'm very sorry. I have been telling you "ToriOS does automount
> everything now" and it is actually a mistake by me :-(
>
> This is because I have been testing it with the 'other systems' in USB
> drives. *ToriOS live does not automount internal partitions* (except
> those in fstab).
>
> So ToriOS needs no change in this behavior :-) After all, it is rather
> unusual to have installed systems in USB drives. Users that have such
> systems can be expected to understand that they need to unmount them to
> make them available. There is a complication though, that they should
> not 'eject' the partition from a file browser, because then it will not
> be possible to mount to /mnt until un-plugged and re-plugged. Unmounting
> with 'umount' works well.
>
> With the same reasoning, we can expect people to mount the partition,
> where they want to read or write the tarball. It can be explained in the
> manual. but the program cannot take care of all possible mistakes.
>
> Or, we should help the user and unmount + remount to /mnt (when possible
> to unmount).
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best regards
> Nio
Hi Nio,
I had been wondering why my other devices were not immediately
available, but I was assuming you were correct.  I just could not find
them :)



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-Israel
ToriOS Team