how does mounting work?

how does mounting work?

[Marco van Hulten]

Hi—

When I insert a USB stick, an icon representing a partition shows up on
the desktop.  When I double-click it, it gets mounted under some
directory under /media/$(whoami)/.  What command is actually executed?


I tried 'gvfs-mount', but now I'm quite sure it isn't that:


$ gvfs-mount --list
This tool has been deprecated, use 'gio mount' instead.
See 'gio help mount' for more info.

/home/marco/.guix-profile/bin/gvfs-mount: line 13: exec: gio: not found


But this does look like something that wants fixing.  Maybe gvfs-mount
is a wrong or an unnecessary dependency of some other package.

It's a couple of weeks ago before I updated GuixSD.

—Marco

Re: how does mounting work?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Marco,

Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> skribis:

> I tried 'gvfs-mount', but now I'm quite sure it isn't that:
>
>
> $ gvfs-mount --list
> This tool has been deprecated, use 'gio mount' instead.
> See 'gio help mount' for more info.
>
> /home/marco/.guix-profile/bin/gvfs-mount: line 13: exec: gio: not found
>
>
> But this does look like something that wants fixing.  Maybe gvfs-mount
> is a wrong or an unnecessary dependency of some other package.

I just checked and glib:bin provides that ‘gio’ command.  I guess we
should fix ‘gvfs-mount’ to refer to ‘gio’ by its absolute file name.

In the meantime, you can run:

  guix environment --ad-hoc glib:bin -- gio mount

HTH!

Ludo’.

Re: how does mounting work?

[Marco van Hulten]

Hello Ludo'—

Je 25 aug 00:23 skribis Ludovic:
> Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> skribis:
> 
> > I tried 'gvfs-mount', but now I'm quite sure it isn't that:
> >
> >
> > $ gvfs-mount --list
> > This tool has been deprecated, use 'gio mount' instead.
> > See 'gio help mount' for more info.
> >
> > /home/marco/.guix-profile/bin/gvfs-mount: line 13: exec: gio: not found
> >
> >
> > But this does look like something that wants fixing.  Maybe gvfs-mount
> > is a wrong or an unnecessary dependency of some other package.  
> 
> I just checked and glib:bin provides that ‘gio’ command.  I guess we
> should fix ‘gvfs-mount’ to refer to ‘gio’ by its absolute file name.

Yes, that's useful.  No high priority (at least concerning me).

> In the meantime, you can run:
> 
>   guix environment --ad-hoc glib:bin -- gio mount

Thank you, this works.

—Marco