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christianpurefoy

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ivman & mass storage

just installed ivman with pacman, I'm running xfce4, but when I plug in my usb device I can't find it... which file should i be looking in? (is it possible to have an icon pop up?)

thanks!

Mr Green

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Re: ivman & mass storage

look in /media maybe (in /)

HTH

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christianpurefoy

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Re: ivman & mass storage

hey!

i don't appear to have a /media file.... i've also tried 'find' on files that should be in the usb device but it doesn't come up with anything...

thanks

Mr Green

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Re: ivman & mass storage

yuk!

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christianpurefoy

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Re: ivman & mass storage

hmmm- I'm thinking I've missed a step or something, esp. as i have no media file!

I've got dbus/hal/ivman in my DAEMONS, but when arch boots up it comes up with the line:

make sure Ivmanconfigbase.xml exists

I've crawled the forum and apparently I have to change some of ivman's .xml files...? (but I can't find the documentation on how to do this on forum or ivman website)...

thanks!

Mr Green

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Re: ivman & mass storage

ok If you need files in /etc let me know ....

Rox website has some info on ivman

Have you got pmount loaded ?

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keevn7

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Re: ivman & mass storage

Yeah, rename or copy the *.xml.example files in /etc/ivman/ to plain .xml and you should be good to go. Here is a command to do it all in one command. Do it from within /etc/ivman/ as root.

rename '.example' '' *.example

After that, start ivman via /etc/rc.d/ivman start. Cheers.

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christianpurefoy

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Re: ivman & mass storage

ah-ha! when I load up arch it now says daemonising... so i presume it's working! but i still can't seem to find my usb mass storage files after i plug it in... i created a /media file but they're not in there...

thanks!

Mr Green

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Re: ivman & mass storage

load up pmount if you not got it may help

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christianpurefoy

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Re: ivman & mass storage

so i did pacman -S ivman
i deleted .default
i then put 'dbus hal pmount ivman' into rc.conf

when i open a terminal and typr dmesg i can see usb-storage being read

i then rumage around xffm and in ./dev/disk i can see that the id, label, path have got the right usb!

but clicking on those doesn't open the usb-storage...

i created a /media file but it ain't in there... where abouts in xffm can i access my files in the usb mass storage device?

Thanks-o!

christianpurefoy

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Re: ivman & mass storage

... and in /dev/scsi i click through host4-bus8-target0-lun0 and it comes up with

disc
generic
part1

but i click on any of those and it simply asks 'open with...'

saintshakajin

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Re: ivman & mass storage

What would you say with 'load pmount'? pmount isn't a daemon...

christianpurefoy

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Re: ivman & mass storage

yeah i've taken pmount out of daemons now... do i need to do anything with pmount (it looks like it's supposed to put devices in the /media file....)

christianpurefoy

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Re: ivman & mass storage

SCHWEET!

thanks got it!

solution (for those who have same issues): after all the above, you have to open terminal and type pmount sda or sda1 (whichever one your device is loaded into)

Is there a way to make pmount a permanent fixture- ie. so i don't have to keep opening up a terminal and typing it in?

thanks!

T-Dawg

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Re: ivman & mass storage

pmount doesn't do anything automatically. It just allows you to mount a device to your system without an fstab entry. So if you had a flash drive all you would have to do is

pmount /dev/sxy whatever

that will mount it to /media/whatever. To umount just do pumount /media flash or pumount /dev/sdxy.

Its been a while since I've configured ivman, so I can't help you there.

saintshakajin

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Re: ivman & mass storage

But you must know your device so what's the goal with ivman if we do pmount /dev/blabla /media/blabla

christianpurefoy

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Re: ivman & mass storage

I found the device by going into /dev and right-clicking to find the properties of the device loaded up... or used dmesg...

T-Dawg

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Re: ivman & mass storage

I would recommed staying with the pmount route. The developers  are starting to compile programs around it and ivman has a tendancy to break upstream. When it does its not fun.

christianpurefoy

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Re: ivman & mass storage

oh... so i don't need ivman if i use pmount...? i thought they worked together...? (certainly come in the same pacman package)

saintshakajin

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Re: ivman & mass storage

Ivman need pmount but pmount doesn't ivman
So you can mount your device with pmount without ivman

christianpurefoy

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Re: ivman & mass storage

ah! ok!

is there a way then of getting the device to appear in /media or Fstab (I'm using Xfce4 & xffm) automatically?

saintshakajin

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Re: ivman & mass storage

hal with fstab-sync but it's depreciated. You can find here (it's in French but the PKGBUILD is universal and it's compiled too)

christianpurefoy

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Re: ivman & mass storage

that looks great but because it's in french i'm a little wary- i'm just getting to grips with linux- let alone french!

christianpurefoy

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Re: ivman & mass storage

so how do you can direct ivman to a particular file... eg. instead of using pmount everytime, it would be kewl if ivman could automatically put the device in media instead...

Mr Green

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Re: ivman & mass storage

Should do that ... ivman loads pendrive just by plugging it in ... other devices may not work some cameras etc...

but if hal dbus & ivman are running you should see something in /media

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