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From: Mark Warner on 20 May 2010 16:09 Wheel wrote: > Mark Warner wrote: >> Art wrote: >>> >>> Well, I checked Mint 9 for this, and all hard drives were mounted and >>> writeable by default. >> >> Interesting. In my test drive last night, that was not the case. <shrug> > > Same as Art for me. Now you've got me wondering. Will have to take it for another spin this evening. -- Mark Warner ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Mark Warner on 20 May 2010 19:37 Mark Warner wrote: > Wheel wrote: >> Mark Warner wrote: >>> Art wrote: >>>> >>>> Well, I checked Mint 9 for this, and all hard drives were mounted and >>>> writeable by default. >>> >>> Interesting. In my test drive last night, that was not the case. <shrug> >> >> Same as Art for me. > > Now you've got me wondering. Will have to take it for another spin this > evening. The partitions on my laptop are visible from the Computer desktop icon while running the Live CD. But they are /not/ /mounted/ until you click on them. When mounted, an icon appears on the desktop, and they are shown in the file manager under Places. -- Mark Warner MEPIS Linux Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Wheel on 21 May 2010 16:54 Mark Warner wrote: > Mark Warner wrote: >> Wheel wrote: >>> Mark Warner wrote: >>>> Art wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Well, I checked Mint 9 for this, and all hard drives were mounted and >>>>> writeable by default. >>>> >>>> Interesting. In my test drive last night, that was not the case. >>>> <shrug> >>> >>> Same as Art for me. >> >> Now you've got me wondering. Will have to take it for another spin >> this evening. > > The partitions on my laptop are visible from the Computer desktop icon > while running the Live CD. But they are /not/ /mounted/ until you click > on them. When mounted, an icon appears on the desktop, and they are > shown in the file manager under Places. It is exactly as you say. I was just a bit surprised that things just opened (mounted) without needing a password (Ext4, NTFS): /home shows resistance. Sorry about the confusion.
From: Mark Warner on 21 May 2010 19:41 Wheel wrote: > Mark Warner wrote: >> Mark Warner wrote: >>> Wheel wrote: >>>> Mark Warner wrote: >>>>> Art wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Well, I checked Mint 9 for this, and all hard drives were mounted and >>>>>> writeable by default. >>>>> >>>>> Interesting. In my test drive last night, that was not the case. >>>>> <shrug> >>>> >>>> Same as Art for me. >>> >>> Now you've got me wondering. Will have to take it for another spin >>> this evening. >> >> The partitions on my laptop are visible from the Computer desktop icon >> while running the Live CD. But they are /not/ /mounted/ until you >> click on them. When mounted, an icon appears on the desktop, and they >> are shown in the file manager under Places. > > It is exactly as you say. I was just a bit surprised that things just > opened (mounted) without needing a password (Ext4, NTFS): /home shows > resistance. > > Sorry about the confusion. Nothing to apologize for. This stuff has become so "seemless" that the distinction between mounted and unmounted is kind of blurred anymore. Heck, the first time I ran it, I opened up the file manager and didn't see them anywhere, so I manually created a mount point under /mnt and stuck 'em there. Didn't realize it would do it automagically with the pointy clickity GUI desktop thingy until I revisted it last night. -- Mark Warner MEPIS Linux Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: »Q« on 21 May 2010 23:14
In <news:85ok12FoueU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote: > This stuff has become so "seemless" that the distinction between > mounted and unmounted is kind of blurred anymore. Heck, the first > time I ran it, I opened up the file manager and didn't see them > anywhere, so I manually created a mount point under /mnt and stuck > 'em there. Didn't realize it would do it automagically with the > pointy clickity GUI desktop thingy until I revisted it last night. With a livecd, I don't care, but it's annoying with a new install. I need each USB drive and stick to have the same mountpoint every time it's mounted. So with a new install, I have to write a udev rule for each device, recheck the volume labels, create mount points that match those volume labels, and match them up in fstab. (Can't mount from the command line without fstab and can't mount consistently in KDE unless the mountpoints match the labels.) While they were making things "seemless" it would be nice if they'd tossed in some GUI for pairing drives with mountpoints. |