Overview of Removable Media

Documentation / Contents - Removable Media

• Overview of Removable Media
  • What It Is Not
  • The Two Programs
  • In This Book
• Setting Up the Daemon
  • What You Need
  • Build and Install
  • Privilege Hop
  • Media Directories
  • Start the Daemon
  • Check That It Works
  • Common Mistakes
• How the Daemon Works
  • What It Does Each Poll
  • Pidfile and One Instance
  • Without Privilege
  • Stopping
• Commands
  • Everyday Commands
  • Mount Eject and Chest
  • Environment
• CyDrive
  • Opening CyDrive
  • The List
  • Open Mount Eject
• Files and Paths
  • The Ledger
  • Mount Points
  • Helper
• Copyright

Removable Media

Blueprint treats removable media the way IRIX mediad did: plug in a stick, insert a disc, and the desktop knows about it without you opening a disk utility. The workhorse is cymount (CyMount). The small Motif manager is cydrive (CyDrive).

Open this book from Help Books in the Contents pane as "Media", or:

cyhelp --book Media --topic overview

The page most people need first is Setting Up the Daemon.

What It Is Not

• Not a partition tool, not gparted, not "all disks on the machine".
• Not network shares (that is networking / the file manager remote path).
• Not MTP phones, LUKS unlock panels, optical burn, or autorun from media.
• Not the hardware mixer (Audio book) and not desktop alert sounds (Sounds book). Mount may play a short desktop cue when something appears.

The Two Programs

cymount     session CLI and optional --daemon poller; owns the ledger
cydrive     Motif list of volumes; Open, Mount, Eject, Properties
eject-media Toolchest "Eject Media" entry; thin face of cymount

cymount never draws a Motif window. cydrive never invents mounts: it reads the ledger and asks cymount to scan, mount, or eject.

In This Book

• Setting Up the Daemon
• How the Daemon Works
• Commands
• CyDrive
• Files and Paths

Man Page

From a terminal after install:

man cymount