[vox-tech] external HD

[Jonathan Stickel]

Donald Greg McGahan wrote:
> Henry House wrote:
> 
>> På måndag, 21 mars 2005, skrev Donald Greg McGahan:
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>>> Can KDE mount an external device when attached to usb kind of like 
>>> Gnome does.
>>>   
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>> KDE can "mount" any device that the Linux kernel recognizes as 
>> mountable by
>> calling the appropriate command to do so. But is not exactly accurate to
>> speak of KDE mounting filesystem (that word has a specific meaning 
>> unrelated
>> to KDE). I think you refer to associating a mounted filesystem with a
>> convenient desktop icon?
>>
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> Yes, and the mount directory is created dynamically in /media rather 
> than /mnt and no fstab entry is present.
> 

Ah, you must be using Fedora 3.  Fedora 3 has someone neat deamon 
running that detects when a usb mass storage device is plugged in, 
creates a mount point in /media, AND automatically edits /etc/fstab. 
That part is desktop independent.  You can then create a desktop device 
icon in KDE that mounts and umounts the device.

Jonathan