Accessing media drives

JOsterheim · 12-27-2006, 10:40 PM

I'm running several different distro's of Linux; SUSE 8.2 & 9.1, Ubuntu 6.10, Scientific Linux. Clicking on "My computer" under SUSE 8.2 the hard drive comes up along with CD, DVD and floppy drives. Not so on the other machines - they only show the removable media drives. How do I get the hard drives to show on the other distro's in the equivilant of "My Computer"? I'm presuming I need to mount them? If so, why are the removable drives showing up and neither the hard drive or it's partitions?

pda_h4x0r · 12-27-2006, 11:49 PM

This is because in most distros, drives mounted anywhere other than inside /media or /mnt and unmounted media aren't shown by default. In KDE, you will need to right-click the desktop, select "Configure Desktop," and click the "Device icons" tab, and check all of the types of media you want visible.

JOsterheim · 12-28-2006, 05:53 PM

Thanks for the reply. In Gnome, what does one do?

JOsterheim · 12-28-2006, 09:39 PM

Hmmm.....I've gone in the desktop, clicked device icons The "mounted hard disk partitions" was checked; for grins I checked the "unmounted hard disk partition", even though it's a single drive with only SUSE on it. Anyway, the CD and floppy are the only ones to show up yet. Am I missing something?

pda_h4x0r · 12-28-2006, 11:43 PM

Try unchecking, applying, and then rechecking "mounted hard disk partition" and applying to fix this in KDE. This is a known bug, I believe, and should be fixed by 4.0 (next release).

Not so sure in GNOME, as I never use it. Try looking around in the GNOME settings--its probably there somewhere.