Re: Icons for mount points (Continuing with configuring our "new" Debian server

2017-10-02 Thread James H. H. Lampert

About a week and a half before I went on my fall vacation, acting on
recommendations from a couple of List members, I moved the mount point
for the "Auxiliary" mirrored pair I added from "Media" to the file
system root, and it works quite nicely.

Just before my vacation, I asked a question about an issue that 
developed when I did that:



I'd like that mount point to show up in Gnome as
something other than a generic folder icon.

. . .

When I plug [my] icon into the mount-point folder's properties, it
shows up . . . . Until the system is rebooted. After a reboot, the
mount point shows up as a generic document icon (the very last thing
I would want a mount point to look like!)

What am I doing wrong?



--
JHHL



Icons for mount points (Continuing with configuring our "new" Debian server

2017-09-15 Thread James H. H. Lampert
About a week and a half ago, acting on recommendations from a couple of 
List members, I moved the mount point for the "Auxiliary" mirrored pair 
I added from "Media" to the file system root, and it works quite nicely.


But a question: I'd like that mount point to show up in Gnome as 
something other than a generic folder icon. Specifically, as an icon I 
use generally for disk volumes in both Linux and Mac OS X, a photograph 
of a 1970s-era removable disk pack, stored in its pack cover (not sure 
if the picture I found is of a pack to fit an IBM "Merlin" drive, but 
it's the same general size and shape).


When I plug that icon into the mount-point folder's properties, it shows 
up as a disk pack. Until the system is rebooted. After a reboot, the 
mount point shows up as a generic document icon (the very last thing I 
would want a mount point to look like!)


What am I doing wrong?

--
JHHL
(In no great hurry for an answer, as I'm going to be on vacation for two 
weeks, but I will be checking my email, and even though I'll be unable 
to actually *try* anything anybody suggests, I'll certainly be *looking* 
at any replies, and acknowledging them.)