On Sunday 10 September 2006 11:14 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > The minor advantages of using a "link to a device" instead of a "link to a > URL" is that it is possible to mount and unmount the device using the icon > on your desktop instead of having to make incantations from the keyboard as > root to do it. Also, as you are limited to only the devices mentioned in > the /etc/fstab file, you have a considerable degree of protection from > shooting your foot off. Otherwise the methods are equally good.
I may be wrong but I think that the "link to device" would not work on Alan's machine because he now has a line in fstab to mount it at boot. Rob
