gnome-mount does not pick up options from HAL

[Noel J. Bergman]

When I insert, for a specific example, an SDHC card into my built-in reader, it is not being mounted with noatime, despite the presence of a HAL policy setting it.

I am attaching the HAL policy and the output from hal-device showing that the value is, in fact, present. However, as you can see from mount:

  /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /media/TOPRAM32 type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)

the attribute is not automatically set.

This has also been reported on the forum by someone else: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6248931

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Another related report: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=884926

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug seems to be an upstream one and should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody having the issue

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Since HAL is going away, attached is a udev rule that illustrates a technique to do this with udev.

There are other published udev rules for mounting (e.g., http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Auto_mounting_USB_devices), but they all suffer from doing too much -- they take over the mounting process. This rule focuses on doing just one thing: re-mounting with the options I want, in this case noatime.

In order to do this, I found that there is a race condition, so there is a rule that first gives the system time to mount the device, after which we remount with the additional option.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.