Note, gnome-mount is not intended for direct use by users.Īll the gnome-mount programs utilize HAL methods and as such run unprivileged. The goal for gnome-mount is for GNOME software such as gnome-volume-manager and GNOME-VFS to use this instead of invoking mount/umount/eject/pmount or direct HAL invoking methods. The gnome-mount package contains programs for mounting, unmounting and ejecting storage devices. This package also contains a wrapper pmount-hal, which reads information such as device labels and mount options from HAL and passes it to pmount. This provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopia project and keeps the usage of root to a minimum.
Pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/ fstab entry. A file system can be defined as user mountable in the /etc/ fstab file by the root user. Alternately, specific privileges to perform the corresponding action may have been previously granted by the root user. The mount and umount commands require root user privilege to effect changes. It is important to umount a device before removing it since changes to files may have only partially been written and are completed as part of the umount.
Its counterpart umount instructs the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible and may be removed from the computer. Mounting makes file systems, files, directories, devices and special files available for use and available to the user. The mount command instructs the operating system that a file system is ready to use, and associates it with a particular point in the overall file system hierarchy (its mount point) and sets options relating to its access.
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