I was wondering how i can create a folder on my xfce4 desktop that acts as a link to a folder in etc/mnt/hda1 that contains a windows fat32 partition. from what i understand, i need to create a folder on my desktop and then create a soft symbolic link to the folder etc/mnt/hda1

my windows partition is mounted at startup in fstab to a folder etc/mnt/hda1 like this

can you tell me what i need to do to make this link & can you also please look at the entry i made in my fstab (above) & tell me if i entered it corectly as partition that all users have read/write access to?

Not sure where the Desktop is in your home directory since haven't used xfce for a long time. But the command would like this on say KDE.
ln -s /mnt/hda1 /home/username/Desktop/hda1

Brian

I'm not sure if xfce supports desktop icons directly. I think I heard something on the Linux Reality podcast about using nautilus or something else for that purpose.

Thanks brian I'll give that a try. The desktop does support icons and they are in the folder home/username/desktop as you said.

you didn't say whether the entry i made in my fstab had been given the right atributes to allow all users full read/write access to this partition. It was only guess work and lets me read it but doesn't let me copy to it. Can you take a look at it and tell me if i did it correctly.

Soory missed that part. Use a line similiar like this. To read up on the other options mentioned use the man command. Example: man fstab or man mount or man just about any command or config file to learn what it can do.
Remove the noauto option for it to mount at boot. umask=000 is the main item to allow everyone to write to it no matter who mounted it.

Brian