From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HE51b-0000mL-2q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:40:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l15EdktP030135; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:39:47 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l15EZfln025623 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:35:42 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so3773916nfb for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:35:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=PAkHRYXwqQ/kc3QYuKg+JEz/+Gs1hN3QgnFqmIZg61ySxitrrYmtS8wIr9QJskBoboX1u2JLHtSMjukh5CtWVlwUXeAX3/aCe78CRuOj5sR1VuC2Lk4XIikOvCAvfyyWauXKwZgwrKYXeiHXvdord0I8W0puGLwBZWNXQ8eKVWE= Received: by 10.82.184.2 with SMTP id h2mr1983791buf.1170686140649; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:35:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.136.1 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 06:35:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 06:35:40 -0800 From: "Douglas Linford" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting drives, partitions & udev, mtab & fstab In-Reply-To: <200702050906.04980.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_62098_30099879.1170686140616" References: <200702050906.04980.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-Archives-Salt: ede1bffa-eff6-4025-ae6f-4152e36c25b6 X-Archives-Hash: aaec260406745402bf41d403c91c6c72 ------=_Part_62098_30099879.1170686140616 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 > > ------=_Part_62098_30099879.1170686140616 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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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