On Monday 05 February 2007, Douglas Linford wrote: > Good day all, > > I'm getting confused very quickly about what program/process actually > automounts my partitions and then what creates the volume name that > is displayed on the desktop for that drive, once it is mounted.
Traditionally it was fstab that did this, and automounting programs read that file and did nothing if a drive was not listed. These days it's becoming different. Icons that pop up on the desktop are normally mounted via hal. KDE and Gnome at a minimum have applets that control it and where you can make your settings. Other wms may or may not do this for you, and of course on the console you get to use the mount command as always. alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [email protected] mailing list
