On Mon, 30 May 2005 14:59, Deane Foreman wrote: > KDE presents my drives in much the same way as Windows - although I > assume on KDE this does not extend any deeper than the level of the > interface itself?
Correct, the KDE developers have tried to keep close to a paradigm with which everybody is familiar. In so doing they have sacrificed some of the flexability for which UNIX is famous. In the case of CDs and other drives they have used the /mnt directory to hold the so-called mount points for the extra drives and such like. When you click on the CDs drive's icon on the desk-top kde executes the command:- mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom for you. This mount command splices the contents of the cdrom into the file-system tree at the position /mnt/cdrom. This action is only a convention. It would - for example - be quite possible to mount the CDROM so it becomes accessable directly from within your home directory. http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/node21.html.gz http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/node22.html.gz are a faily good text-book explanation of what's going on, but these chapters do assume that you have a vague understanding of what's going on. -- C. S.
