Over the weekend my old USB external hard drive popped its clogs so I purchased new external 1.5tb hard drive. I hooked it up to my PC running Mepis 8 (Debian Lenny) and then ran gparted on the hard drive splitting it into three partitions
sdc1 465gb ntfs sdc2 440gb ext3 sdc3 491gb ext3 But now I have a couple of problems, first, as soon as I turn the PC on it places an expansion drive (which is the name of the drive) icon on the desktop which is sdc1, there is no references to sdc in my fstab file, how can I stop this. I inadvertently made a desktop icon to sdc1 (I had meant to make it to sdc3) and renamed the icon "pictures" (to represent what the partition holds). But now I am unable to delete the icon, I can mount the device from the icon, I can't unmount the device from the icon I have to do that from the command line using the -f option. Now when I look at the properties of the expansion desktop icon and sdc3 they are complete different, the expansion drive icon only has three tabs, General, meta info and mounting, but on sdc3 I have 5 tabs, general, permissions, device, meta info, preview. What I would like is to have the mounting tab available on sdc3 so that I can set some of the mounting parameters. Anybody got any suggestions? Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-07-06 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
