Free unmounting software for linux

Submount is a system for automatically mounting and unmounting removable media drives like cdroms and floppy disk drives. It works with the Linux 2.6 kernel series.

A backport to the 2.4 kernel series is available now as well. Once installed, it allows removable media drives to be accessed as if they were permanently mounted.

Installing

Submount is composed of two part: a kernel module called "subfs" and a user program titled "submountd". Both must be properly installed for submount to work. The software is contained in the two directories underneath the submount directory. To build and install the software, read the files titled "INSTALL" in both directories. A few binary packages are now available.

For many distributions, there are packages for 2 different kernels available. This usually means one is for the original distribution kernel, and the second for a kernel released with recent security updates included. Check the package name and the version of the kernel installed on your system carefully to make sure that they match.

For Redhat, Fedora, and Mandrake, Choose the RPM that matches your kernel package. For Debian, download the subfs-modules package that matches your kernel-image deb, download the submountd package, and install both. The .tgz packages for Slackware 9.1 were built for the basic ide kernels, but also work for the scsi.s kernels, and hopefully for others. If you want a package for a different stock kernel from these distributions (such as smp) email me directly.

SuSE 9 contains version 0.2 of submount, with the kernel modules included in the kernel packages, and the userspace portion in a separate "submount" package. The package is included with the professional version, but not with the personal edition, so if you have the latter, get the package from SuSEs ftp site. Theres no integration with yast, however, so youll still have to edit your /etc/fstab file by hand.

SuSE 9.1 will use submount to handle removable media by default.

Mountapp is a dockapp for mounting and unmounting filesystems. Mount.app is especially useful for removable volumes like CD-ROMs, ZIP(tm) disks, and floppies.
One click to mount, unmount, eject. GUI configuration, automatically configures "user" and "owner" mounts from /etc/fstab.
Enhancements:
- The source has been moved from CVS to Mercurial.
- Some user-supplied patches have been applied.

Monto is a simple WindowMaker dockapp for manually mounting devices like floppy, HDD, USB, zip, CD, etc. (a maximum of four devices).

Mounting/unmounting operations are performed by one click on the dockapp region associated with the mount point alias.

Configuration options can be changed by manual editing ~/.clay/monto file (Its necessary when monto is run for the first time - autoconfig based on /etc/fstab
is currently unavailable) using text editor.

Meaning of led colors as follows:

* blue - when device is mounting
* green - when device is mounted

Suggestions, comments and patches are welcome.

Truecrypt mount/unmount scripts contains two .sh files for mounting and unmounting truecrypt partitions with some dialogues. When mounting a password is asked and when unmounting both normal and forced mounting is supported, asking the user what to do in each stage. These are very simple scripts, but I decided to share them with the world, as I couldnt find them myself.
USAGE
Create two desktop icons which link to the scripts and give as parameters the source and the destination for the TrueCrypt partition. Now clicking the icons allow you to mount and unmount your partitions via dialogues. Very simple, but also useful. Remember to make the scripts executable. If you only have one TrueCrypt partition, you might want to write the source and destination into the script instead of giving them as parameters.
The idea for these scripts came from http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_EncFS and especially Kevin Wennemuth who wrote the scripts there, so thanks to him!
Enhancements:
- Opening KDE Wallet fixed, script did not always open kdewallet and never closed it.
- Kwallet script (needed parts) integrated into mount script.
- Some minor cosmetic changes.

Autofs NG is a Linux automounter that is intended to be completely interoperable with autofs implementations on other Unix platforms. As such, it supports some features that the current Linux automounters do not.
This includes direct mounts, /net (--hosts access), lazy mounting and unmounting of hierarchical multimounts, and browsing. Autofsng also supports the usual indirect map support available elsewhere.
Maps are supported from flat files, executable maps, NIS maps, NIS+ maps, LDAP maps, and hesiod (DNS) filsys namespace.
AutofsNG was originally developed at Sun Microsystems, but has been cancelled as a project. Fortunately, it has been released as GPL, so I am continuing its development in my spare time.
Enhancements:
- Initscript fixup for path to /proc/mounts
- We no longer update /etc/mtab because the kernel does all unmounting. Current recommendation is to symlink /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab if you want to see the what is actually mounted with calling mount
- Fixed SuSE/LSB initscript issue where ypbind wasnt neccesarily started before autofsng.
- Added an RPM .spec file to the tree.
- Fixed initscript install
- Fixed possible crash when using the -hosts map.
- Redimentary mount option translation. Currently translates the common Solaris NFS mount options to Linux specific ones. Hard-coded.
- Initscript fixups for unknown systems (Debian in particular)
- Fixed a bug where the -hosts map would return duplicate map offsets, which is a semantic error for usual entries.

Getcontrol project is a GNOME 2 multimedia frontend.
Getcontrol is a GNOME 2 multimedia frontend.
It aims to play DivX, DVD, MP3, Ogg, and Shoutcast streams,and also provide digital photo viewing, video conferencing, etc., all connected with your remote control and running on your TV out.
It relies on Gstreamer for multimedia playback.
Indeed even with a smart lirc configuration it was a real maze to launch any DVD player application, or even a simple XMMS.
My wife just turned crazy and was not able to use it. I realized that compared to a hardware player my remotelly controlled linux box was not so friendly to use.
Then i took my Anjuta IDE, some docs from gnome.org websites and started to develop my own coherent GUI for this multimedia box.
Enhancements:
- Releasing : getcontrol 0.1.7
- Divx : Divx playback from CDROM (mounting/unmounting/ejecting)
- Audio : MP3 streams supported with xml configuration file (bookmark)
- Control : Play/Pause/Stop/Mute/VolUp/VolDown supported
- Tasking : Pressing menu while watching movie suspend movie and go back to main menu. Movie can be restored from menu.
- Busy activities : Implemented a busy animation showing clearly to the user what is busy. (Inspired from Mac OS X(R))

slashManager is a fast file manager for Unix systems written in wxPython. It supports directory tree view and tabbed browsing. It has internal viewers for major image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG, and others) and HTML. It combines, in a unique way, features found in many other file managers.
Main features:
Implemented:
- Copy/Cut/Paste with keyboard, popup menu, or quick browser
- Option for displaying hidden files and/or directories (separate setting for each)
- History (separate for each tab)
- Mounting and unmounting of file systems (based on /etc/fstab)
- Properties dialog for files and directories (shows sizes of directories)
- Tree view of the file system (cached for fast drawing)
- Tabbed views of directories
- Sorting by date, name (possibility to disable case-sensitivity), extension, or system order; with option to reverse order.
Missing:
- Bookmarks
- Configuration tool
- Drag and drop
- File searching
- Session management
- User scripting
- Virtual file systems

Kate OS is a multitasking operating system, which brings all that is necessary for: programmers, webmasters, administrators and home users. The most important Kate OS features are high efficiency, safety, reliability and low system requirements.
Kate OS contains full support for generally used multimedia. Kate OS is a perfect combination of Linux power and utility. The complexity of installed software makes using the system comfortable, immediately after the installation process. Looking for a perfect solution for the experienced UNIX user? Kate OS is perhaps the best one.
Kate OS combines advantages of all these system types. The installation and configuration process of Kate OS is not as simple as in desktop distributions, but the stability and efficiency are incomparably higher.
The new version contains many improvements and modifications over Kate 1.0. The system has been reconstructed from the ground up and is no longer based on Slackware. Kate OS became much more comprehensive, now it contains greater set of programs and libraries.
Applications, which have been added to simplify your work, are:
- Leafpad- simple, but very functional text editor, similar to Notepad;
- Abiword- advanced text editor;
- Firefox- well-known internet browser;
- Thunderbird- mail client;
- GNU Gadu 2- program working with Gadu-Gadu and Tlen.pl;
Desktop Enviroment- Xfce 4.2 adds some fresh impressions and possibly will satisfy each user. System also contains Aspell and Ispell dictionaries. Kate 2.0 has an extended system of packages, TGZex, which has been adapted for remote actualization.
Kate 2 uses up-to-date sound system ALSA, the older solution OSS is not supported any more. The packages in TGZex standard are adjusted to remote system updating, wich will be available soon- their possibilities have completely replaced the sysupdate tool.
System supports the solution called "supermount", which frees the user from manually mounting and unmounting removable media. To enable this option, you should just uncomment proper lines in /etc/fstab.
And whats the most important thing? The system has acquired a new effectiveness through Kernels 2.6 infrastructure. Kate 2.0 ZYKLON is a perfect solution for desktop and server, you may enter the world of many recent technologies used in Linux. Reveal their power!
Kate Linux 2.3 requirements:
- i486
- 24 MB RAM
- 300 MB HD (For ROOT and SWAP)
- VGA card
- soundcard (optional)
- CDROM (bootable), floppy
Whats New in 2.3 Stable Release:
- We are proud to present the newest milestone release of Kate OS II series. Kate OS 2.3 brings 2.6.14.2 kernel with Reiser4 support, the newest glibc library, XFce 4.2.3.2 desktop environment and many other applications in current versions. We have modified system boot scripts so they present the boot sequence in a clear way. Another new addition in Kate OS is a hardware detection tool discovery, which detects and configures system hardware. ... Additionally, the DVD edition contains GNOME 2.12.1 and KDE 3.4.3 (optimized for i686 class processors).