mount another disk

Eric Tanguy eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr
Sat Mar 25 17:25:29 UTC 2006


> Eric Tanguy wrote:
> > I would like to mount a vfat disk at bootup :
> > i had a rep in /media : echange
> > i had this line in /etc/fstab : 
> > /dev/hdd1 /media/echange auto defaults 0 0
> > but the disk is not rw for user and i would like to see it in "computer"
> > and on desktop.
> > Eric
> > 
> > 
> 
> the Syntax is :
> 
> /dev/hdd1 /media/echange vfat auto,users,umask=0 0 0
> 
> but you will not have any icon on the desktop :( This is a VERY bad 
> thing with fc5 !
> After this, you can make this to have a kind of icon :
> ln -s /media/exchange /home/username/Desktop/exchange
> WHERE : username is the name of the desktop's user you want.
> Then you will have a shortcut on your desktop !
> But this is one of the problem with fc5 !!
> 
> Larry

The problem is new ? Because if i remember well there was the possibility 
to have disk icon like that on "computer" with FC4, no ?

Eric





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