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qmediamanager(1)	     General Commands Manual		qmediamanager(1)

NAME
     qmediamanager - GUI app for managing removable media

SYNOPSIS
     [env QMEDIA_FM=command] qmediamanager /mount/point

PURPOSE
     QMediaManager  is	a  GUI	application for managing removable media.  It is
     meant to be launched by an  auto-mount  service  such  as	FreeBSD's  sysu-
     tils/devd-mount,  to  provide the user options when removable media are in-
     serted.

DESCRIPTION
     QMediaManager presents the following options:

     1.  Filesystem info: Shows the mount point, filesystem  type,  device,  and
     basic statistics on the associated filesystem.

     2.   Launch  file manager: Launches the file manager indicated by the envi-
     ronment variable QMEDIA_FM if defined.  If QMEDIA_FM  is  not  define,  but
     ~/.config/qmediamanager  exists,  the  command name or absolute path of the
     file manager is read from this file.  If neither the QMEDIA_FM not  ~/.con-
     fig/qmediamanager	exists, qmediamanager searches for common file managers,
     such as those included with popular  desktop  environments,  and  uses  the
     first one discovered.

     The mount point is provided as a command-line argument to the file manager,
     e.g. "lumina-fm /media/cd1".

     3.   Reformat:  Partitions  and  reformats the media with the user-selected
     filesystem.  All partitions on the device are deleted.  The mount point as-
     sociated with the qmediamanager process is unmounted before  attempting  to
     reformat.

     Note  that there will be multiple qmediamanager processes/windows open if a
     connected device contains more than 1 mountable partition.   Reformat  will
     fail  if  any other partitions on the device are mounted, so all partitions
     except one must be unmounted before attempting a reformat operation.

     Only the most popular filesystems are offered by qmediamanager for  format-
     ting.   Many  others are available by using auto-media-format from the com-
     mand-line or by using fusefs tools directly.

     Permission to reformat devices is determined  by  device  daemons	such  as
     FreeBSD's	devd.	See devfs.conf(1) for details.	The FreeBSD desktop- in-
     staller(1) script configures typical removable devices with  write  permis-
     sion  for members of the operator group.  If your system was configured us-
     ing desktop-installer, formatting should work out of the box in most cases.
     Use of the auto-adduser(1) script, part of auto- admin, is recommended  for
     adding users, as it supports addition to important groups such as operator,
     wheel, and video.

     4.   Copy	disk  image  to device.  Useful for creating installation media,
     bootable live thumb drives, etc.

     5.  Unmount: Unmounts the mount point associated  with  the  window,  using
     "npmount umount /mount/point".  See npmount(1) for more information.

ENVIRONMENT
     QMEDIA_FM	 File manager command to override default

FILES
     ~/.config/qmediamanager  should  contain the command name or absolute path-
     name of the preferred file manager, if one does not wish  to  use	the  de-
     fault,  or the system does not have any of the file managers in the default
     search list.

SEE ALSO
     npmount(1), mount(1), umount(1), devfs.conf(1), fusefs(1)

BUGS
     Please report bugs to the author and send patches in unified  diff  format.
     (man diff for more information)

AUTHOR
     J. Bacon

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