On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the response. How would I determine what the desktop I am running > is? I thought that Gnome was the desktop environment... I have a lot to learn I > think. > > I will need to check on the etc/fstab information... I doubt that it is there > though since I never added anything - and the partition was created after I > installed Redhat. > > Just for kicks, what should I expect to see in etc/fstab? > Dan:
I'm going to cc this response to the list since I'm sort of the neighborhood newbie and don't know all that much. You'll get much better help from others onlist, and they'll be able to spot any mistakes I'm making :) Anyway, here goes . . . I would guess that, unless you were presented a choice of desktops when you installed RH9, that you're using Bluecurve. But this is only my deduction from things I've read about RH9: I've not used RH since 7.3, so am really in the dark in terms of hands-on experience with this distro after 7.3. Farnkly, I'm not even sure how you'd check whether you're using Bluecurve. But I know I've seen others onlist make comments about RH9 and their use of, or familiarity with, it, so maybe they'll be able to tell you whether you're using that desktop and/or how to tell. If you created the partition in question after you installed RH9, then it most likely will not be found in /etc/fstab (the "/" before "etc" is important: the forward slash is Linux's way of indicating directories, and in this case, that it is a top level directory). What you would see there would depend on your hard drive arrangement. Let's take a simple case for demonstration purposes. Let's imagine you have a 120GB hard drive (HD hereafter), and that you've put 4 partitions on it for all the stuff you've installed there. Let's say Win2K is on the first partition, RH9 is on the second partition, your 97GB of data are on the third partition and that you've made the fourth partition for swap. The way Linux will refer to these partitions, if they are all primary partitions, is as /dev/hda1 (Win2K), /dev/hda2 (RH9), /dev/hda3 (97GB data) and /dev/hda4 (swap). The numbering changes slightly for extended/logical partitions, but I'll not go into that here for purposes of simplification. If there were an entry in /etc/fstab for your 97GB data partition, it would look something like this: /dev/hda3 /home/data vfat defaults 0 1 This presumes you would have created the directory /home/data and would have chosen, at some point and through some means, to make it the mount point for your data partition. The creation and choice of mount point are sort of a subjective issue as I understand it - i.e., I don't know of any standard for where a mount point for such a partition would be created, or for how it would be named. Perhaps others onlist do though. Anyway, if you don't have a mount point for that partition on your RH system, you will need to create one. Then, you'll need to create an /etc/fstab entry for it. After that, you can mount it. You can surely create some sort of symlink desktop icon representing the partition though, as I mentioned, I'm not exactly sure how you'd do this on your system. As far as creating a mount point and an /etc/fstab entry, I'd try looking around the system and see if RH has some facility for doing this - like maybe by detecting new partitions. It may be able to sort of automate it through the gui for you and save you some of the difficulty. In any case, don't try to follow the /etc/fstab entry I've used above for demonstration purposes since it will almost certainly be wrong for your system. Can others offer some help on this query? I don't want to go on at too great length since I don't always know what the heck I'm talkin' 'bout. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
