[gentoo-user] Where did this volume come from?

[gentoo-user] Where did this volume come from?

[Mike Mazur]

Hi,

When I point Nautilus at location 'computer:///' I see my CD-ROM
drive, my filesystem, a network, and something that says '39.2 MB
Volume'. I'd like to mount this volume to see what's there but I can't
because I'm not root.

Where did this volume come from? How can I explore what's there as
root? Where does Nautilus look to display the contents of
'computer:///'?

Thanks,
Mike
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Re: [gentoo-user] Where did this volume come from?

[Canek Peláez]

On 6/28/07, Mike Mazur <mmazur@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi.

> When I point Nautilus at location 'computer:///' I see my CD-ROM
> drive, my filesystem, a network, and something that says '39.2 MB
> Volume'. I'd like to mount this volume to see what's there but I can't
> because I'm not root.
>
> Where did this volume come from? How can I explore what's there as
> root? Where does Nautilus look to display the contents of
> 'computer:///'?

If I'm not wrong, that would be your boot partition (or another small
partition you have declared in /etc/fstab).

It's not really Nautilus, but gnome-volume-manager and gnome-mount the
responsible ones. Check the gconf keys under /system/storage to
configure those. They also use /etc/fstab, but then you cannot mount
the volumes listed in there.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Where did this volume come from?

[Mike Mazur]

Hi,

On 6/29/07, Canek Peláez <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I'm not wrong, that would be your boot partition (or another small
> partition you have declared in /etc/fstab).

I think you're right, I had thought my boot partition was larger...

Mystery solved :)

Thanks!
Mike
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Re: [gentoo-user] Where did this volume come from?

[Mick]

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On Friday 29 June 2007 07:05, Mike Mazur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I point Nautilus at location 'computer:///' I see my CD-ROM
> drive, my filesystem, a network, and something that says '39.2 MB
> Volume'. I'd like to mount this volume to see what's there but I can't
> because I'm not root.

$ su
Password: xxxxxx
# mount /boot

Just a wild guess.

> Where did this volume come from? How can I explore what's there as
> root? Where does Nautilus look to display the contents of
> 'computer:///'?

I'm not familiar with Nautilus, but Konqueror looks at about:konqueror, which 
itself is linked to something else . . . it may be parsing the contents of 
lshal, udevinfo, and /etc/fstab, but I'm not sure really.  I've been wondering 
about this myself, but haven't come across any explanation yet.
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Regards,
Mick

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