On 3/31/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1? > > Not only you can: you actually have to! :) > Check the Gentoo handbook for details. When I did install Gentoo (in > december 2004), I had to write *all* my fstab by hand, I don't know if > now it's different.
Well, the automated installer did most of it for me, so I never got the exposure to it. > > I thought fstab was > > generated by the machine or something, and that it isn't a terribly > > good idea to edit it. > > A fstab file is ususally generated by the operating system installer, > but, being it a plain text configuration file, it is thought to be > editable by root. It has a pretty straightforward syntaxis. Yeah, didn't take too long for me to figure out how to word what I wanted. Only a few tries and one reboot (don't ask). > The machine-generated thing you shouldn't touch, instead, is /etc/mtab. > This one contains the *current* state of mounted devices. Okay. That makes sense. > > I don't have a /mnt directory. Should I just create one? > > Well, you have to create an empty directory to use as a mountpoint. I > create them inside a /mnt directory, but that's just "historical habit". > Many distro I see around now use /media as a root directory for > removable media mountpoints. Nothing stops you from using > /home/sauron/whatever, although I feel symlinks are a cleaner way to > access mount points from your home... I made /mnt/sda1, 'cuz that's what I used about 4 years ago on a Red Hat Linux box. It was really messing me up with all this /media stuff when I used Kubuntu. > > No, I had to manually create a mount point via the GUI and then enable > > the thing and all this stuff. Then KDE just looked at /media and > > slapped that on my desktop. I mounted my windows partition (back when > > I had one) on /media so that I could have that on my desktop too. > > That's the same of writing on the fstab, but managed by a gui instead of > done by hand (editing fstab is really easy once you manage the logic of it). Yeah, I can now see what the GUI did. From my experience with Qt I can safely say it was harder to make the GUI than to do it by hand. -- ========== GCv3.12 ========== GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y ========= END GCv3.12 ======== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list