External USB icons on desktop
I am using Ubuntu Hardy on a Dell Inspiron 1525. I have an external 500G harddisk that has 5 partitions (both ext3 and FAT32). I usually connect it and the icons appear on the desktop and I never mount it using the mount command. I was wondering if it was possible to automatically mount it to mount points like /mnt/software, /mnt/movies, /mnt/music, etc.
So from Nautilus I tried experimenting with one of the partitions (ext3, 195G, options: rw, nosuid, relatime, data=ordered). I did a right-click and then went to Properties. The last tab was Volume. Here it listed the volume mount point, filesystem type and options and there I entered new options particularly the mount point. Now when I plug the drive in, the partition that I edited doesn't show up. When I click on it from Nautilus and try to mount it, it gives me an error: Quote:
Can anyone tell me where and how can I get back my original partition settings? Thanks in advance. |
Try specifying mount points in /etc/fstab
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Thanks for the response. Actually, I can still mount it from command prompt with mount command and so fstab will also work. But I would like the external USB disk to be used only when necessary and so it isn't plugged in always. When I plug it in the icons appear on the desktop. With the partition I fiddled with, the icon has disappeared and when I try to click on it through Nautilus it gives the error.
I wanted to know how to correct it in Nautilus and get my settings back. I was looking for any setup files (in .nautilus/ for example) in my home folder but couldn't find any. Any ideas on this? |
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I'd say: Code:
mv ~/.nautilus ~/nautilus |
I tried moving the .nautilus folder. Didn't work. So I went hunting for the file that holds the key to my partition. I looked in .gconf/ in my home directory. Inside it there is:
system/volumes/_org_freedesktop_Hal_devices_volume_uuid_442847b8_aebf_4bc8_ae64_1f2430142a0d Which has %gconf.xml with Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?> |
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