Mounted Drive...using its files
 

Ok, I finally got my 160 gb hard drive mounted. I checked in terminal, and it showed files I remember being on that drive. How would I get to access these files through the use of folders. My other hard drive has a folder on the desktop in which I can access files. I want the same for my other hard drive, without using Terminal to access every file.

This is a difficult question for anyone to answer when you do not give us any details of what system you are running and what desktop you are using.

Im using Redhat 9, im not sure what other info is needed

1. Make a directory to mount the drive on
2. Mount the drive
3. If you want it mounted on boot, edit /etc/fstab
4. Make the desktop link you want that points to it.

# Managing drives
LNAG - Accessing my drives
Rute - Device Mounting

Its already mounted. Its just a matter of being able to open files, i can see them thru terminal, but im unsure how to get direct access

Then (assuming KDE) open konqueror. Navigate to where your files are mounted eg /mnt/anotherdisk, and open that. If that is what you want, you can right-click and drag a directory to your desktop. Choose 'Make Link'.

That's it.

...oops LEFT-click and drag a directory to your desktop

its saying i dont have access rights to that location....

This is difficult for me to answer: What desktop are you running?
Maybe gnome (there's a footprint-thingy at the bottom left of the screen)
Maybe KDE (There's a K-thingy at the bottom left of the screen)
Are you runnning a graphical interface at all (or are you just text-based)?

Give us some hints please!

Gnome i think lol....

its graphical....im running the default Redhat 9 theme

Is it time to read yet? :study:

Different filesystems/desktop window managers means different methods and here we are in the dark......

# Managing drives
LNAG - Accessing my drives
Rute - Device Mounting

man fstab
info fstab

I've been reading for the last 2 days....none of it makes sense to me, hence me posting here.

OK, I am not used to gnome (I happen to like KDE), but I'll switch to gnome and be back later......
Meanwhile please post the output from

ls -Al /mnt

assuming /mnt is where you have mounted this disk.

later

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 16:44 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 16:44 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 15:16 fuck
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 15:20 fucker
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 12:43 Mount
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 12:54 Mount2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 15:31 pos
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 14:36 shit
dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Nov 11 18:48 windows

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lol, its mounted to windows....all the others were my pissed off attempts to mount

Back from gnome. Woooo, that was scarey!

In gnome: Foot->Applications->File Tools-> Nautilus.

Navigate to the directory you want, then RIGHT click (why does gnome have to be different from KDE, or vice versa?) and drag it to the desktop. Choose link.