NAME
xvmount - device mounter with OpenLook interface
SYNOPSIS
xvmount [ generic XView arguments ] [ -qh ] [ -d <directory> ]
DESCRIPTION
xvmount is a small graphical frontend for mounting devices. The Open
Windows user interface contains a number of buttons for mounting and
unmounting the different devices. If the user presses one of the mount
buttons xvmount calls the corresponding mount(8) system call to perform
the actual device mounting. After successfully mounting the device the
label of the button is changed to ’umount’. Pushing the umount button
results in the corresponding umount(8) system call.
Before unmounting a disk the filesystems super-block is written by a
sync system call.
Errors and status messages are displayed in the status line of the
window.
To mount and umount devices the user needs permissions by corresponding
settings in the /etc/fstab file.
OPTIONS
generic XView arguments
xvmount should accept the generic tool arguments described in
xview(1).
-d directory
Use the given directory as the location of the configuration
file "xvmounttab" instead of the global /etc.
-q Add a Quit button to the main window. Useful for users of window
managers which do not provide their own Dismiss buttons by
default.
-h Display a summary of options.
CONFIGURATION
The number of buttons and the devices which are available for mounting
are described by a configuration file named "xvmounttab". Usually this
file should be found in "/etc". A different location can be specified
as command line option or by the environment variable XVMOUNTPATH. The
maximal number of mountable devices is 16.
The config file has the following format:
#####################################################
#
# Config file for xvmount (v3.7)
#
# name directory
Floppy: /floppy
Syquest: /mnt
CD-ROM: /cdrom
Special: /special
The ’#’ sign marks the rest of a line as a comment. Empty lines are
allowed. Each line has to contain two entries: the name of the label
and the mounting directory in the same notation as the corresponding
entry in the /etc/fstab file.
The configuration file can be generated automatically or interactively
from /etc/fstab by xvmountconfig(8).
HELP-INTERFACE
For an online help you can use the integrated XView help. Hit the
<Help> key over a control to find out what it does. If you don’t have
a <Help> key, you can use the xmodmap (1) command to make one of your
function keys act as a help key. For example, xmodmap -e ’keysym F1 =
Help’ would make F1 bring up help messages.
ENVIRONMENT
XVMOUNTPATH - search path for xvmounttab
FILES
/etc/xvmounttab - config file for xvmount
/etc/fstab - mountable filesystem table
SEE ALSO
mount(8), umount(8), fstab(5), sync(1), xvmountconfig(8)
AUTHOR
Thomas Uhl, <uhl@fh-heilbronn.de>
V.Ossenkopf, <ossk@ph1.uni-koeln.de> (Version 3.7)
COPYRIGHT
v1.0 - 7.2.1993
v1.1 - 28.3.1993
v2.0 - 17.4.1993
v2.5 - 5.5.1993
v3.0 - 22.5.1993
v3.5 - 14.8.1993
v3.6 - 20.8.1994
v3.7 - 30.8.2003
Copyright (C) 1994 by Thomas Uhl
This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
GNU Public License.