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MU · Posted: Sun 03 Aug 2008, 13:32 Post_subject: MuppyQuickmount (August, 08, 2008)

This is a very fast drivemounter.

It does NOT support Floppy drives.

It supports harddisks and external drives, like USB-Sticks.
CD/DVD drives can be used from a second window, that increases speed.

Note:
If your drive is not listed, you might have an old Puppy, that misses nodes (Puppy 301/400).
In that case, install this bugfix:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=214416#214416

MuppyQuickmount requires Puppybasic and Gtkdialog3.

Also have a look a pdrive:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=21200

You can get a pet that includes muppyquickmount, Muppy-Filer and Gtkbasic all together from here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=224716

Mark

lapis · Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 185

I like the quickness of this, thanks. I have a slow dvd drive in my laptop so Mut can be slow even though I almost never use the dvd so this is great.

One question, the free space does not show anything but apart from that it detects all drives and their sizes correctly.

Edit:
Sorry, spoke too soon. I tried mounting some ntfs drives and they show up in MUT as mounted but I can't copy anything to them.

MU · Posted: Sun 03 Aug 2008, 17:43 Post_subject:

ok, uploaded new version.
now ntfs-drives should me mounted read/write.
I also added an option to mount all drives.
And you can repair them.

The list now uses a monospace font.

lapis, free spaces is shown for mounted drives only.
Or is it not shown for yours?
What Puppy do you use?

Mark

MU · Posted: Sun 03 Aug 2008, 18:50 Post_subject:

I added another option:
"find free space on all drives".
This will mount unmounted drives, get the free space, then unmount them again.

As this is slower, it is not active by default.

Mark

MU · Posted: Sun 03 Aug 2008, 19:43 Post_subject:

I forgot to add a file required to repair partitions.
It opens Puppys repairprograms in rxvt.
Added it now.

Mark

MU · Posted: Sun 03 Aug 2008, 22:20 Post_subject:

I added the option to mount CDs.
This opens a new window, so the speed of harddrive-detection is not affected..
I tested it with just one drive, so I cannot guarantee, it works with all.

Now with these options it might make sense to use Gtkdialog instead of xdialog for a nicer interface like pdrive?

Mark

lapis · Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 185

MU · Posted: Wed 06 Aug 2008, 04:54 Post_subject:

I made a major rewrite.

It now uses Puppys Gtkdialog3 instead of Xdialog.
It works more reliable when determing the freespace on all drives.

And it has this new option:

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The "mount on" option:

Puppy mounts everything to "/mnt/".
This is the old Unix standard.

In 2008 there also is the new approach to mount removable media to "/media/".

Both standards can cause collisions.
So Gnome 2.22.1 will not display drives, that are mounted to /mnt/ by an entry in /etc/fstab.

MuppyQuickmount gives you the choice:

- "/mnt/" mounts to /mnt/ without using /etc/fstab.
- "/media/" mounts to /media/ without using /etc/fstab.
- "use "fstab" mounts to the mountpoint definded in /etc/fstab.

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Explanation of fstab:

/etc/fstab has informations, to where a device shall be mounted.
It also may contain additional info, like what codepage (language) shall be used.

So in general, it makes sense, to use this.

If you get problems, e.g. in Gnome, use the other options.

As with the options "/mnt/" and "/media/" you cannot set a language, there also is a 4th option:
"use mqmtab".
You can copy /etc/fstab to /etc/mqmtab.
This is a file used ONLY by MuppyQuickmount.

So drives can be mounted with language options, without conflicting with Gnome.

(c) Mark Ulrich, 2008
License: GPL V3 or later

MU · Posted: Wed 06 Aug 2008, 04:57 Post_subject:

lapis, please try the new one.
If you still have problems, please type in a consolewindow:

lapis · Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 185

MU · Posted: Fri 08 Aug 2008, 03:31 Post_subject:

I found a small bug, and corrected it.
If you had a drive mounted like sda10, then you could not mount sda1.
It thought, it was mounted already.

I also tested it in Puppy 400, works fine Cool

Mark

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9476 Location: SwedenEurope

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2199 Location: UK

I realise this thread is quite old now, but I'm looking to use Muppyquickmount - particulary the mount all command/button..

I have this script in /root/startup (not mine):

lapis · Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 185

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

Hi

As far as I can tell, in the shutdown script in 4.3x the command "mount" is run to see what filesystems are mounted and then goes on to unmount them. It is reflected in the shutdown with "unmounting stray filesystems"..

You could try Startmount. It could fullfil your needs.

Cheers