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NAME

       pmount-hal - HAL-aware wrapper around pmount

SYNOPSIS

       pmount-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
       matching /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
       possible 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
              messages.

SEE ALSO

       pmount(1), hald(8),

AUTHOR

       pmount is developed by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@canonical.com>.