On 2025-10-15 09:49:46 +0200 Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Patrick Cardona wrote: >> Hello, > >> - I set the relevant lines with UUID in /etc/fstab: > >> UUID=793050c4-7577-4f65-9877-596c21d21311 /mnt/CRUCIAL ext4 >> defaults,noauto,users,rw,nofail 0 0 >> UUID=5B74-A562 /mnt/CLEPAT vfat defaults,noauto,users,rw,nofail 0 0 > >> - I added and set the mount points '/mnt/CRUCIAL' ans '/mnt/CLEPAT' in >> 'SystemPreferences/Volumes'; >> - When a disk is plugged, I can open the relevant View to browse the disk >> contents from the icon shown on the desktop and unmount it with DND on the >> Recycler: this is the expected behaviour and it works fine. > > That's a good thing then. > If you unmount them do they disappear from desktop? When an icon disk is really associated with a plugged and mounted disk, yes, the icon disappear after DND on the Recycler. But if it is a "ghost" icon (the disk is not really plugged nor mounted) the DND fails (icon forbidden on the Recycler). The only way to remove fake icons is then to log out and log in again. > > >> But it happens that, even without any plugged device, the menu 'Tools/Check >> Disks... (#E)' still shows all the device icons like in the following >> screenshot: > > What do you mean. The menu doesn't "show" anything it just checks, if > something is mounted it will show in the tree and optionally on the desktop. > > Do you mean that you run "check" and you have nothing plugged in and they > show on the desktop? Yes. > Do they show without check? Could happen if you have an automounter. If I do not use "Check", nothing happens. > >> Why? > > Hard to say, there are many things that come into play. The code tries to > accomodate many potential different setups and sometimes fails. > >> Something to change in /etc/fstab? > > I don't think so. If things mount, fstab is file. > >> An issue in SystemPreferences or in GWorkspace? >> A missing DBus message? > > As far as I know, no DBus is used. GWorkspace builds on top of base, where > most of the code resides. SystemPreferences just sets some hints in terms of > Preferences. > Mounted things should appear in your tree and be browsable whatever > settings are there > SystemPreferences just helps you to ignore certain mounts and define certain > mounts as removable. On certain OSs and setups this should be automatic. > > Do you have /etc/mtab ? If it exists, things are greatly simplifed since it > is used. Check that the path is correct. I do have an '/etc/mtab'. > > Riccardo > > -- Patrick Cardona - Pi400 - GNU/Linux aarch64 (Debian 13.1) Xorg (1:7.7+24) - libcairo2 (1.18.4-1+rpt1 arm64) Window Maker (0.96.0) - GWorkspace (1.1.0 - 02 2025) - Theme: AGNOSTEP - MUA: GNUMail (1.4.0)
