[Bug 238702] [NEW] exo-mount ignores HAL volume mount options 'sync' and 'noatime'

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Binary package hint: libexo-0.3-0

HAL lets users set mount options for block devices in
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi

Among these are 'sync' and 'noatime'

When Xubuntu systems are being used in public or school labs, it is
valuable to force USB drives to mount SYNC/NOATIME to insure that naive
users who remove drives without explicitly ejecting them (VERY COMMON)
do not lose data.

To this end, Inveneo (http://www.inveneo.org) which installs labs in
rural Africa edits /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi to add the SYNC
and NOATIME options.

Unfortunately, exo-mount (and gnome-mount, but that's a different bug)
does NOT respect these values!

The attached patch updates the libexo-0.3-0_0.3.4-7ubuntu2 package to
respect these values so that exo-mount will follow the rules as
configured in HAL.

** Affects: exo (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: exo-mount hal mount xfce
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exo-mount ignores HAL volume mount options 'sync' and 'noatime'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238702
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