Re: Mount a new HDD somewhere in the file system ”permanently”

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2011/10/25 Bruce Pieterse <octoquadza at gmail.com>:
>> Is it not possible to have spaces in the folder name in this
>> case?
>
> I'm not a 100% sure, but normally spaces are escaped e.g. New Folder would
> become New\ Folder. I personally don't use spaces.
>
>
>>> 5. Save and then use mount -a to have it loaded in the new location
>>
>> Yes, that works, thanks!
>>
>> So now the folder /home/UserName/Something/SomethingElse/Images (let's
>> call it that) exists and seems to be the HDD. However, we still have a
>> HDD icon on the desktop called ”1 TB file system”. Is there something
>> to add in fstab to make sure that doesn't happen? For example, if we
>> plug in a USB stick we want it to appear on the desktop, but we DON'T
>> want this HDD to appear there. Possible? How?
>
> Try ejecting the device on the desktop and then open a terminal and unmount
> and remount the device with the following:
> sudo umount /home/UserName/Something/SomethingElse/Images && sudo mount
> /home/UserName/Something/SomethingElse/Images.
>
> Alternatively, if the issue persists (and I'm sure it won't) try restarting
> the operating system.

After following your five steps in your first reply I restarted the
operating system. It was after that I saw that the icon was still
there on the desktop and that's why I asked, so it doesn't seem like
restarting it once again would help.

> This can help if we accidentally called sudo mount -a
> multiple times or you can just run the sudo umount command above until
> umount tells you that the device is not mounted there and then you can mount
> the drive again.
>
> --
> Best of luck,
>
> Bruce


Thanks,

Johnny Rosenberg