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[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 11:50 -0500, gwgrover at windstream.net wrote:
>> If there is a cd in the cdrom drive when the system is booted, the
>> cdrom drive shows up on the desktop;
>> How do I make the same thing happen with the partitions on my sata
>> drive?? (they do all mount sucesfully at boot time)
> 
> Normally mounted partitions don't show up with icons, they're mapped
> onto the directory tree.  I seem to recall that if you added a removable
> parameter to their fstab entry, they'll behave more like what you want.
> Though it's been so long since I tried that, that I can't remember the
> trick.
> 
I think that if you add the user or users option to the ftab entry,
it will get a desktop icon, because the user can mount/unmount it.
(It may only get an icon with the user option if it is unmounted, or
if the logged in user has mounted it, I don't remember...)

Mikkel
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