On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 02:09, Alexandre Aractingi wrote:
> Le mer 21/04/2004 à 23:20, Ian Urie a écrit :
> > I'm afraid I use KDE..........and the icon only appears when the drive (memory 
> > stick) is inserted. The drive must mount automatically , or the icon wouldn't 
> > appear........ as far as I can see.
> 
> I don't think that's true...
> When the icon appears on your desktop, don't click on it. Open a shell
> and cd to the dir, you'll see it's empty, because it hasn't been mounted
> yet.
> It is mounted on the fly by KDE, when you click on that icon. So it's
> not available until the icon has been clicked, which can be an issue if
> we want to automate things.
> Besides, if you get this icon on your desktop, it won't be removed when
> your USB device is unmounted. If it were automatically mounted you could
> untick "unmounted hard drive partition" and then the icon would
> disappear when the drive is unmounted, which would be more elegant...
> Anyway, thanks again for the hints,

Out of curiosity, I just plugged the USB pen and went to a cli without
clicking the desktop icon. It was automatically mounted.

This is the line in my fstab.

none /mnt/removable supermount
dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--

MDK 10 kernel 2.6.3.8

Adolfo.


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