I formatted and added a second harddrive to my Fedora Core 4 installation
However, It's not showing up in the Computer directory thats on the desktop

I know the harddrive automounts
[root@localhost ravin]# mount /dev/hdb1
mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /media/storage busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdb1 is already mounted on /media/storage
[root@localhost ravin]#


How can I get the icon in the Computer directory?

Eh? I'm not sure what you mean by that. What are you trying to achieve?

Meanwhile, what is the output of the following commands?
mount
cat /etc/fstab
ls -l /mnt

[root@localhost ravin]# mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
/dev/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /media/storage type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
automount(pid2167) on /net type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2167,minproto=2,maxproto=4)

[root@localhost ravin]# cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /media/storage ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,managed 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

[root@localhost ravin]# ls -l /mnt
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 18:18 storage



http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2.../snapshot1.png

In that screenshot you can see the little icons for floppy, network, filesystem. I'm wondering if somehow I can get an icon for /media/storage

Thanks for the help.

Well, in that linked picture I do not see any icons that I can identify as "floppy, network, filesystem". It looks like a chat application running on the gnome desktop.

I do not use gnome, but if I wanted a desktop link to a mounted drive in KDE, I'd right-click on the desktop -> Create New... -> Link to Location. Then I'd enter a description like "New HDD" and it's location, in your case /media/storage. Then I'd right-click the new default icon, and change it to something appropriate.

Surely gnome has a similar procedure?

(it wouldnt let me post a link because of antispam rules, but i only registered to answer your question so i wont even have 5 posts so i put the link in the subject.)

here this will tell you what you need to do to fix the drive problem, i had the same problem,
but the line of code at the end doesnt make the drive show up in the computer area what you need to do instead is use this

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/drive 2 ext2 pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 1 1