Hard Drives mounting icon and formating

[Derek Broughton]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 May 2006 23:07, Richard wrote:
>> Coming from a Mac desktop, I'm use in having  the hard drives,
>> mounted (shown) on the desktop
>> then I would access the hard drive for files..etc.
>>
>> Now is there a way to put a icon on the desktop of each hard drive,
>> and be able to double click, and view All Files. ( at root level)
>> man level.
> 
> Richard,
> 
> This is not advisable, it's not how Unix file systems work. Each drive
> and partition on the drive mounts somewhere into a large directory
> tree that starts at the root directory "/"

That said, KDE allows you to choose to display mounted and/or unmounted
partitions on the desktop.  I would have thought the option existed in
gnome, too.

> You want to use one of those for mp3's, so the time-honoured
> way to do that is to mount it at the directory /media/mp3/ (it
> doesn;t have to be called mp3 - the name is up to you).

"Time honoured"?  I never had a /media directory until I switched to
Ubuntu.  :-)  The old-timers use /mnt (and even that's a little
new-fangled). :-)
-- 
derek