SCSI disk showing up on Gnome desktop. Why?

rnturn · 04-06-2009, 10:11 AM

Back when I upgraded from SUSE 10.x to OpenSUSE 11.0, I had made sure that my home directory had been moved onto a separate disk that I could remount following a fresh 11.0 install. When I added the "home" disk to /etc/fstab, all works fine.

The odd thing, though, is that when I login into the Gnome desktop, the disk shows up on the desktop like it's a USB device with an icon labeled "146.8 GB Media".

I have another disk from the previous version of Linux that I use as "/usr/local" and added it to fstab in the same way but it dot not show up on the desktop.

Any ideas why this is doing this? Nothing's not working but it strikes me as odd to see non-removable disks showing up on the desktop.

TIA...

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Rick

mostlyharmless · 04-06-2009, 11:56 AM

Well, it's not a Gnome thing per se, more a distro specific automounting "feature". If I boot up using Knoppix (for repair work, for example) KDE puts every single drive partition plugged into the machine, regardless of type, onto the desktop, including my separate RAID partitions. Slackware, on the other hand, same version of KDE, only mounts new devices, such as USB drives, when they're plugged in while KDE is up and running.

Bottom line, don't worry about it. If it bugs you, I suppose you can mess around in udev or HAL and fix it.

Here's a link or two:
http://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/Default.aspx?pageid=27
http://devpit.org/wiki/Usbkey_udev_and_autofs_rules

rnturn · 04-06-2009, 10:28 PM

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Well, it's not a Gnome thing per se, more a distro specific automounting "feature". If I boot up using Knoppix (for repair work, for example) KDE puts every single drive partition plugged into the machine, regardless of type, onto the desktop, including my separate RAID partitions.

If that's what's happening, it's not consistent. I have another disk -- the one that used to boot 10.3 (used to be sda until I changed the SCSI ID) -- that wasn't automounted and no desktop icon was created for it. I'm curious why one disk was chosen to get a desktop icon and not the other.

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Bottom line, don't worry about it. If it bugs you, I suppose you can mess around in udev or HAL and fix it.

Yeah I guess it does bug me since, like I mentioned, it doesn't appear to have treated these two disks the same way.

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Here's a link or two:
http://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/Default.aspx?pageid=27
http://devpit.org/wiki/Usbkey_udev_and_autofs_rules

Not terribly applicable, I'm afraid. Not only has autofs never been enabled on this system, the disks I'm talking about are not removable. (Not without powering down and pulling off the SCSI cables, that is). If 11.x is going to have trouble distinguishing between removable and non-removable media, I think maybe it's time to find another distribution.

Guess I'll keep looking. And watching for other posts.

Thanks...

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Rick