mounted folders showing on desktop

I am runnning Fedora FC6; most everything is working, including the mounting of sata drives at boot time.

BUT
There are no icons on the desktop representing the mounted files
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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)

Any help would be appreciated

Gary

 

HDD's normally are mounted as part of the file system; unless they are external drives then they are mounted separately. I'm assuming that your SATA drive is mounted as /dev/hde and greater.

Check the file system and see how much free space you have.

 

the sata drive is an internal drive; the motherboard supports sata and the drive shows up during boot as ide-3. Linux knows the partitions on the drive as sda1,sda5,sda6,sda7; and there is plenty of free space on then. sda5 is a vfat partition, the other three are ntfs. I have ntfs support installed in fc6 (ntfs-g3 and the plain vanilla ntfs kernel mod).
There are entries in fstab for the partitions and the do mount ok at linux startup time
here is my fstab

 

You have the following installed correct?

From http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6
The one that matches your kerenel:
kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-2.2.6.18_1.2849.fc6.i586.rpm
kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-2.2.6.18_1.2849.fc6.i686.rpm
kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-2.2.6.18_1.2868.fc6.i586.rpm
kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-2.2.6.18_1.2868.fc6.i686.rpm

ntfs-kmod-common-2.1.27-2.lvn6.noarch.rpm

From http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386
fuse-2.6.0-2.fc6.i386.rpm
fuse-libs-2.6.0-2.fc6.i386.rpm
ntfs-3g-0-0.5.20070920.fc6.i386.rpm

Try this for /etc/fstab

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
#
/dev/sda1 /media/sata1 ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/sata2 vfat rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/sata3 ntfs-3g rrw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/sda7 /media/sata4 ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0

 

Hello Shadow_Puter_Dude
Yes, I have all of the items you listed installed. It looks like the only changes suggested were to substitute "defaults" for the other options I had listed. Tried it and that did not do the trick.

Then I modified the fstab by adding an entry for a network drive on my windows box and it DID show up on the desktop. The only difference is that the network drive uses "cifs" as a file type.

 

Hm, that's interesting.

I didn't see anyting in the Fedora Tutorial that, even remotely, talked about adding a networked drive to the fstab.

Everything woeking now I take it.

 

not everything. The only way I could get the sata partitions to show on the desktop was to define symbolic links to them; but thats just a crutch; I believe they should show up on the desktop when they are mounted, the same way the cd drive does when a cd is loaded.(mounted)

Gary

 

You may be right, I'm not sure what the solution is at this point.

Obviously the drives aren't mounted as part of the file system, but as separate storage devices; and if they are being mounted as separate storage devices then an icon should appear on the desktop when they are mounted. The same way my external FAT32 USB 80Gb HDD mounts when I connect it.

Since the VFAT partition isn't displaying when it mounts, as well as the NTFS partitions; leads me to believe that it's an issue with SATA and how they mount.

I'm going to have to research this a little more.

 

Actually haivng thought about it for a bit, creating a link may be the correct approach. My external devices all have links.

 

The only trouble with links is they are there all of the time -- not just when the drive is mounted.

Hhhhhhhmmmmm - would it be that I'm mounting partitions, not the drive? Gotta try that and see

CANNOT mount the device it's got partition on it

 

Open a Terminal, su to root issue the following commands:
mkdir -p /mnt/sata1
mkdir -p /mnt/sata2
mkdir -p /mnt/sata3
mkdir -p /mnt/sata4
exit
exit

You may also need to add a modprobe command to etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
example: modprobe 3w-xxxx

Do you know what the driver is for your SATA controller?

 

The mkdir commands, don/t do the trick.

No, I dont; Did not have to install any; also the sata ports are on the motherboard.
The following entry in the fstab causes a mount to take place and places an icon on the desktop, the icon goes away when the file is unmounted:

These entries do not

Did some google searches and found a 10-pound bag of stuff to read about mounting devices; there is a bunch of files involved, hal kudzu and a lot of other things I dont recall right now. A bunch of stuff to read - most of which I do not understand

 

I wonder if this is the problem: Why can't I mount NTFS on Fedora during boot?

 

SPD, wish it were that simple.
One of the first things I did was set selinux to 'permissive' Thankyou for taking the time to try and help!

Gary