From: "Douglas Linford" <drkrider@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting drives, partitions & udev, mtab & fstab
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 06:35:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <df9900ae0702050635qc588271h17801daca8d39b82@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702050906.04980.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
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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
>
> --
> Optimists say the glass is half full,
> Pessimists say the glass is half empty,
> Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be?
>
> Alan McKinnon
> alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
> +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
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[not found] ` <200702050906.04980.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
2007-02-05 14:35 ` Douglas Linford [this message]
2007-02-05 15:05 ` [gentoo-user] Automounting drives, partitions & udev, mtab & fstab Neil Bothwick
2007-02-05 15:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-05 15:27 ` Douglas Linford
2007-02-05 16:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-06 14:40 ` Douglas Linford
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