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Desktop Icons for Mounted Drives in Ubuntu
« on: 14 May, 2008, 10:28:29 pm »
We're talking Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) here.

I have a dual boot Ubuntu/Windows ME PC with 2 hard disks; the first with 2 partitions (both vfat, one being the c: drive from windows); the second with 5 partitions (ext3, swap & 3 vfats). My fstab file looks like this:


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>      <options>                  <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc        defaults                   0       0
# /dev/hdb3 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=69e46e55-46ae-448f-9650-e6f294d167fc / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hdb4 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=109ce625-3649-4504-84ed-044dfaf3c40b none swap sw 0 0
# /dev/hda1 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=3C20-140F /media/cdrive vfat umask=000 0 0
# /dev/hda5 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=230B-1BDE /media/misc vfat umask=000 0 0
#/dev/sdb3      /               ext3        defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
#/dev/sdb4      none            swap        sw                         0       0
#/dev/sda1       /media/cdrive   vfat        umask=000                  0       0
#/dev/sda5       /media/misc     vfat        umask=000                  0       0
#/dev/sdb1       /media/videos   vfat        umask=000                  0       0
UUID=0000-0D6C /media/videos vfat umask=000 0 0
/dev/sdb5       /media/music    vfat        umask=000                  0       0
/dev/sdb6       /media/images   vfat        umask=000                  0       0
/dev/cdrom      /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto                0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto                0       0

In Dapper and Edgy my desktop had icons for all the drives that had been mounted to /media. In Feisty and Gutsy only the partitions from the first disk appear (cdrive & misc).  The output from mount is:

/dev/sdb3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-386/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /media/cdrive type vfat (rw,umask=000)
/dev/sda5 on /media/misc type vfat (rw,umask=000)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/videos type vfat (rw,umask=000)
/dev/sdb5 on /media/music type vfat (rw,umask=000)
/dev/sdb6 on /media/images type vfat (rw,umask=000)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

It seems that the partitions are being mounted on /media OK. Using the File Browser I can go to /media and see all the relevant folders for the drives/partitions.

Any ideas how I can get the icons back for the second drive?