Some Mounting information seems missing?

[Willy Hamra]

On 24/11/2008, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
> > Nils Kassube wrote:
> > > OK, now I understand how you mount the partition and I had to do some
> > > experiments to understand what happens. If you use this page and
> > > enter a mount point for a partition it creates an entry in the file
> > > /etc/fstab for the partition. Furthermore it creates the mount point
> > > directory. If you then enable the partition it will be mounted.
> > > However it isn't useful to go to the administrator mode each time you
> > > want to mount the partition. Therefore I suggest you go to that page
> > > one more time. Select the sdb5 partition and clich the "Modify ..."
> > > button. For the "Mount permission" select "Any user may
> > > enable/disable any time" and click "OK". That way you don't need
> > > administrator mode to mount the partition.
> >
> > I opened SystemSettings>Advanced>Disk&Filesystems>Modify,
> > there was no mount option that I could see.
>
> "Mount Permission" not option. But maybe you have a different version of
> the page?
>
> > The window that opened has
> > a box at the top that says
> >
> >                              Type:  proc
> >                               Mount Point:      /proc
> >                               Options              defaults
> >
> > The rest of the window is blank with OK and Cancel options at the
> > bottom.
>
> I think you selected the wrong partition. Can you try that again with the
> sdb5 partition?
>
> > > Finally we'll create a shortcut for the partition so you can access
> > > it more easily. Right click on the empty desktop and select "Create
> > > New" -> "Link to device" -> "Hard disk device ...". At the "General"
> > > tab enter a name for the shortcut. At the "Device" tab select the
> > > device "/dev/sdb5" and click "OK". Now when you want to access the
> > > partition, just click the shortcut and the disk will be mounted if
> > > necessary and then it will be opened with Dolphin.
> >
> > I carefully followed your instruction until the shortcut was on the
> > desktop.  When I clicked on the shortcut, I got the following Error -
> > KDesktop
> > The desktop entry file
> > /home/steven/Desktop/%2fdev$2fsdb5 is of type FSDevice but has no
> > Dev=...entry.
>
> Did you select the /dev/sdb5 entry of the "Device" tab? Anyway, unless you
> made the mount permission change the shortcut doesn't really help.
>
>

dear Nils, I'm not on my computer right now, but if i'm not mistaken,
when he clicks modify, there'san option there to automatically mount
the partition. if he checks this option, this should create an fstab
entry for his partition.

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.