1pmount-hal(1)               General Commands Manual              pmount-hal(1)
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NAME

6       pmount-hal - HAL-aware wrapper around pmount
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SYNOPSIS

10       pmount-hal device [ pmount options ]
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DESCRIPTION

14       pmount  ("policy mount") is a wrapper around the standard mount program
15       which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a  match‐
16       ing /etc/fstab entry.
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18       pmount-hal extends pmount by making it work together with hal (Hardware
19       Abstration Layer).  pmount-hal will ask hal about  values  for  certain
20       mount  flags (like noatime and async) and the prefered mount point name
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24       The  first parameter (device) must be the HAL UDI or the device node of
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WARNING

30       As  pmount-hal uses pmount(1) to mount the given device, it is not pos‐
31       sible to unmount it with hal !  You need to use  either  pumount(1)  or
32       directly  umount(1) to unmount the devices mounted by pmount-hal.  This
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ENVIRONMENT

50       PMOUNT_DEBUG
51              Setting this variable to a nonempty value will enable debug mes‐
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SEE ALSO

56       pmount(1), hald(8),
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AUTHOR

60       pmount is developed by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@canonical.com>.
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64Martin Pitt                    November 15, 2004                 pmount-hal(1)