Hello!
I am running 64-bit Opensuse v 11. When logging in as root I got my disk mounted on the desktop. Logging in as user it is not mounted on desktop. I find it under “Computer” and under /media. Its name under “Computer” is “8245.7 GB Media” and under /media it is “disken”. What is wrong?
My fstab file looks like this:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36001e4f017d565000f31097606365183-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36001e4f017d565000f31097606365183-part3 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36001e4f017d565000f31097606365183-part2 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36001e4f013a6a2000f5e929809e086a1-part1 /media/disken ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
Your fstab indicates you have 2 disks. On 1 disk, the 1st partition is a Windows NTFS partition, and it is what is being mounted at /media/disken - AFAIK, unless you specifically set it up this way, this mount point was probably automatically created because this is an external drive. It just arbitrarily chose “disken” but you can create any mount point you wish and edit it accordingly in fstab (but be careful to do that exactly right) and make sure the mount point you create has the right permissions. The name shown under Computer is a default descriptive name because the partition does not have anything in its “label” (in Windows, this is the equivalent of “Local Disk”; if you want to change that to something you like better, you can do that easily in Windows Explorer; just right-click on it and type in the name. Or you can do it in Windows Disk Management.).
What devices show on the desktop is controlled by the desktop settings, which are different between Gnome, KDE 3.5.9, and KDE 4.x. And the settings are user-specific, so you configure the desktop individually for each user. The desktop is not the mount point, it is simply displaying the device. /media/disken is the actual mount point.
OK!
Thanks for the desriptiv answer. Anyway I am running gnome and it is strange the disk is automatically mounted on roots desktop but not on the users?
Again, what you see on the desktop is the mounted device, that is not the same at the desktop being the mount point. And, the desktop display options are set up per user, i.e., you can have entirely different info displayed on the root desktop vs the user desktop, or from one user to the next. As long as you can access the partition as user the way you need to, you’re OK.