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* Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting drives, partitions & udev, mtab & fstab
       [not found]     ` <200702050906.04980.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
@ 2007-02-05 14:35 99%   ` Douglas Linford
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From: Douglas Linford @ 2007-02-05 14:35 UTC (permalink / raw
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Alan,


Excuse the double post....

So...I am running Gnome 2.16.2   Is Gnome Volume Manager also managing the
drives and partitions I have?
And then what creates the volume name that is displayed on the desktop for
that drive?
In my example I have a USB external drive with a ext3 partition, there is no
listing in /etc/fstab for that partition, /etc/mtab lists it as, /dev/sdc2
/media/disk, and on the desktop the icon for it reads, 66.0 GB Volume. Where
is that configured?

douglas

On 2/4/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
>
> On Monday 05 February 2007, Douglas Linford wrote:
> > Good day all,
> >
> > I'm getting confused very quickly about what program/process actually
> > automounts my partitions and then what creates the volume name that
> > is displayed on the desktop for that drive, once it is mounted.
>
> Traditionally it was fstab that did this, and automounting programs read
> that file and did nothing if a drive was not listed.
>
> These days it's becoming different. Icons that pop up on the desktop are
> normally mounted via hal. KDE and Gnome at a minimum have applets that
> control it and where you can make your settings. Other wms may or may
> not do this for you, and of course on the console you get to use the
> mount command as always.
>
> alan
>
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>
> Alan McKinnon
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