mounting harddrives

knudsen83 · 01-22-2008, 04:06 PM

This might be a simple question but anyway here goes..

I wanna mount my external harddisk so that is doesn't appear on my desktop, but only in Places->Computer.

How do i do that?

Drakeo · 01-22-2008, 04:37 PM

please elaborate more.

knudsen83 · 01-22-2008, 04:47 PM

This is how is mount my external harddisk(using fstab) at the moment

/dev/sdb1 /media/My_Book vfat user,auto,uid=1000,umask=022 0 0

The thing is that when i mount the device under /media an icon showing "My_Book" appears on my desktop. I don't wanna have that icon there.

I would like if that icon was showing under places->computer.

could that be done?

Drakeo · 01-23-2008, 12:17 AM

in the /etc/fstab edit
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 auto noauto,owner,users,rw 0 0
now go to your /mnt/ and create the directory (folder) name it sdb1.
now everytime you boot you can go to the /mnt/sdba1 and open it up.
you may need to as root or super user type mount /dev/sdb1 do not forget to unmount ok if you pull the usb cable out with out unmounting or a correct shut down it is very hard on the vfat file table. if it doesnt mount then change the the ftab to vfat.

knudsen83 · 01-23-2008, 06:44 AM

Thanks Drakeo...

knudsen83 · 01-27-2008, 05:14 PM

hmm

I mounted the device under /mnt

here is my fstab
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/My_Book vfat user,auto,uid=1000,umask=022
0 0

but sometimes when i log on there is an icon on my Desktop and sometimes there aren't..isn't that i bit strange??