Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:48:42 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.nl> To: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: USB memory stick hotswap problems Message-ID: <20040928174842.GA59936@kayjay.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <41594D85.4090801@bowtie.nl> References: <41555396.4030009@fer.hr> <20040926194744.GA8196@kayjay.xs4all.nl> <41594D85.4090801@bowtie.nl>
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:39:49PM +0200, Marc van Kempen wrote: > Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > > >On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:16:38PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > ><snip> > > > >>Any ideas how to solve or circumevent these problems? (Aside from "don't > >>do that"). > > > >I'm using mtools (and mtoolsfm as a graphical frontend) for accessing > >my USB memory stick. This does not require mounting the device. > >A disadvantage is that this only works for devices with a FAT filesystem. > > > A nice feature of kde is (I wasn't aware of this until recently) is that > it can use mtools transparantly in konqueror, just specify > > floppy:/<driveletter> > > as the url, where drive letter is the one that you would use with > mtools. Possibly the gnome file manager can do something similar. Thanks for the tip! I tried it and it works :-). Karel.
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