xvmount - device mounter with OpenLook interface

xvmount [ generic XView arguments ] [ -qh ] [ -d <directory> ]

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.

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.

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).

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.

XVMOUNTPATH - search path for xvmounttab

/etc/xvmounttab - config file for xvmount

/etc/fstab - mountable filesystem table

mount(8), umount(8), fstab(5), sync(1), xvmountconfig(8)

Thomas Uhl, <uhl@fh-heilbronn.de>

V.Ossenkopf, <ossk@ph1.uni-koeln.de> (Version 3.7)

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.