What about gui apps that help one keep track of disks ("block devices"?) and what /dev node(?) they occupy? I know such things exist. I used to use Mandrake, for example, and it had this system utility called "Mandrake Control Panel." It was by using this that I initially discovered that the computer was seeing my original USB HD as a scsi device. Mandrake Control Panel has a section called "mount points" where it gives a graphical display of all disks hooked up to the system and tells whether they are mounted or not. It doesn't just rely on fstab for its information about drives: my original USB HD appeared unmounted under "mount points" as sda1 as soon as I hooked it up to the system, and before I did any editing to fstab (the gui utility will actually modify fstab for you to reflect the new disk if you tell it to). Does anyone know of any other such gui apps for Linux? I've got a "double cheese burger with the works - plus" install on the Libranet system I'm using now, so there are tons of apps on here already. But none of the ones I've tried thus far work like the Mandrake Control Panel I've outlined above. Further input on such apps from any gui-philes on this list?
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