No partitions mounted in /media when using Xfce
 

Hullo All,
I am running Fedora 8 and have been using gnome.
I thought I'd have a look at the Xfce window manager, and find it gererally good but none of the other disk partitions that gnome displays in the 'Computer' window and in /media are present.
Is this something that can managed within xfce somewhere, or does it result from some settings somewhere in Fedora?

Cheers,

Are you saying you can't see them graphically or the mountpoints are not there? What happens you you type ls /media in a console?

I'm not 100% sure, but I remember Gnome listing available partitions, and then mounting them when you attempted to access them. Are your partitions listed in /etc/fstab?

Nothing, nil return. /media has no content, as it appears when one opens /media directory viewer window.

Gnome shows a "Computer" icon on the desktop, which when opened shows all the partitions that are mounted in /media as well as all the CD and DVD drive icons. Xfce doesn't seem to provide that facility.
Gnome was mounting my Win2000 (NTFS) and other FAT32 partitions in /media, although I'm not sure where this done as there no entries in /etc/fstab for these mounts. Anyway, none of this is happening with Xfce.

All very mysterious.

Cheers,

You'll have to manually add your partitions to /etc/fstab then. Once you have done this, run 'mount -a' as root as a test; your partitions should then be mounted. All partitions listed in /etc/fstab are mounted at boot as well, so you'll only need to do this once.

Is this normal for Xfce, or should one expect that partitions will be auto mounted into /media when using Xfce with Fedora 8, as per gnome behaviour?