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 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 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >