pmount-hal(1)pmount-hal(1)NAMEpmount-hal - HAL-aware wrapper around pmount
SYNOPSISpmount-hal device [ pmount options ]
DESCRIPTION
pmount ("policy mount") is a wrapper around the standard mount program
which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a match‐
ing /etc/fstab entry.
pmount-hal extends pmount by making it work together with hal (Hardware
Abstration Layer). pmount-hal will ask hal about values for certain
mount flags (like noatime and async) and the prefered mount point name
and pass it to pmount, thus respecting the configured device storage
policy.
The first parameter (device) must be the HAL UDI or the device node of
the device to be mounted. All further parameters are passed to pmount
unchanged.
WARNING
As pmount-hal uses pmount(1) to mount the given device, it is not pos‐
sible to unmount it with hal ! You need to use either pumount(1) or
directly umount(1) to unmount the devices mounted by pmount-hal. This
is the cause of the following error messages when unmounting with
hal umount:
* Device to unmount is not in /media/.hal-mtab so it is not mounted by
HAL
* Cannot open /media/.hal-mtab
* Cannot obtain lock on /media/.hal-mtab
ENVIRONMENT
PMOUNT_DEBUG
Setting this variable to a nonempty value will enable debug mes‐
sages.
SEE ALSOpmount(1), hald(8),
AUTHOR
pmount is developed by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@canonical.com>.
Martin Pitt November 15, 2004 pmount-hal(1)
