How to show mounted partitions in the "Computer" window?

Mark markg85 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 17:12:41 UTC 2007


so what your saying is that it can be done with those commands but that the
entries will be gone again when fc7 reboots...
that sucks.

gonna test it now.

2007/3/27, Oldman <talbotscott at cox.net>:
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> Mark wrote:
> > it must work in gnome aswell.
> > ther must be a solution for this.
> >
> > 2007/3/27, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>:
> >>
> >>
> >> > and i want to show them there.
> >> > i know it`s possible. they way they are currently mounted is working
> >> just
> >> > fine in KDE but gnome seems to have a problem with it.
> >> >
> >> > So does anyone know how i can get this working?
>
> Mark:
>
> It seems a bit tricky right now, but there are a few commands that will
> accomplish this for you:
>
> hal-device              hal-find-by-property
> hal-get-property
> hal-find-by-capability  hal-set-property
>
> pretty much you need to discover the uid of the device (partition) you
> want displayed, by using one of the find-by programs or lshal if you
> prefer) then run the hal-set-property --<uid --<key> --<bool>
>
> IIRC the key is something akin to device-ignore which is default true
>
> You will need to restart X (unfortunately) to make the device appear in
> the Computer drawer and unfortunately (again) this will reset upon reboot.
>
> Looks like for F7 this will change with a hal-device-manager (hopefully
> this will be more permanent settings, but right now it is broken, so I
> can't tell much about it.
>
> HTH
>
> Scott
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