[CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop
Ross S. W. Walker
rwalker at medallion.com
Tue Apr 29 21:32:24 UTC 2008
William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 16:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > William L. Maltby wrote:
> > <snip>
>
> > I wonder if anyone can duplicate the problem by creating a partition
> > and having it mounted in fstab by volume label and see if it appears
> > twice.
>
> Not quite the same, but I've a USB drive that I plugged in after
> removing "noauto" from the fstab entry.
>
> $ grep 4 /etc/fstab
> LABEL=BkUp_4_5 /media/sdc1 ext2 defaults,noatime 0 0
Hmmm, and if the mount point were outside of /media?
> Got a nice little message telling me (in Gnome desktop) that I wasn't
> priveleged to mount it. That's as I would expect since I was already
> logged in at my desktop. Mount showed it mounted.
>
> $ mount
> /dev/sdc1 on /media/sdc1 type ext2 (rw,noatime)
Is that fixed or removable media?
> Now I'll reboot and see what happens.
>
> Rebooted. Prior to entering "telinit 5", did a "mount" and it was
> mounted. After logging onto graphical desktop, one icon on
> the desktop.
> As expected.
>
> I'm led back to the conclusion that there is some oddity about the
> device definitions on Mark's problematic unit.
There could be, could you give it a try with another mount point
outside of /media and with a fixed disk if it isn't already?
-Ross
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