RE: [Cs-club] Linux acct space

["Jon Steinert" <jon@mathfab.com>]

Mounting of arbitrary drives requires root access, or a way to 'hack'
/etc/fstab and add the lines you want. In the future their may be work
on per-user mounting in linux but at this time there is no easy way to
pull this off.

The only real way I can think of pulling this off is to use a loopback
device and mount using some sort of user-space daemon (which last I
checked doesn't exist yet for this job) which proxies the connections to
the outside devices. There would be serious issues with this concept
along the lines of kernel caching, permissions, and concurrent file
access. Perhaps these are the reasons why it hasn't been done on linux
yet. I'm guessing that large portions of the kernel, as well as the
large majority of programs depend on the idea that a path is absolute
and unique.

--hachi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cs-club-admin@lists.uwosh.edu 
> [mailto:cs-club-admin@lists.uwosh.edu] On Behalf Of Justin Ormont
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:55 PM
> To: cs-club; tony@hnet.net
> Subject: RE: [Cs-club] Linux acct space
> 
> 
> Has anyone figured out a way to mount windows smb shares from the lab?
> I've tried the normal (simple i.e. samba) ways of mounting 
> but have run into 
> too many restrictions.
> 
> >===== Original Message From tony@hnet.net =====
> >I have 16% use: 2.8 meg.  This is with VNC, all my data 
> structures programs, 
> assembly programs and some backgrounds.  You probably have 
> some crap somewhere 
> that a program you used dumped to your user account.  I 
> believe an option you 
> have is to copy everything you want to keep to removable 
> media, and delete all 
> the files on your user account.  (You probably want to be in 
> a console).  When 
> you go back into X, everything you NEED should be recreated.  
> You may want to 
> check with someone else to see if this works.  I am only 
> vaguely certain I 
> have done this before.
> >
> >Tony
> >
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