William L. Maltby wrote:
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 11:34 -0700, MHR wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:11 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:03 -0700, MHR wrote:
Must be something like that - if I su and umount it, both icons go away. Then I 'mount -a' and only one comes back. But if I log out and log back in, they both come back. Must a new "feature" of gnome 2.20.0....
If *I* know about it, it *can't* be a *new* feature! ;-)
Heh, heh - I meant "feature" as in the infamous Bill Gates interview with the German technology magazine, wherein he claimed that Windows has no bugs, only features that people do not understand. (You can't make this stuff up....)
The most interesting part to me is that the disk in question is a fixed drive in the case. On my CentOS boxes and laptops, these NEVER show up on the desktop (why would they?), only the removable media.
If it is truly a fixed drive, then I would suggest a look at the logs (dmesg and/or messages) to get it "identity" and then look at udev configuration scripts. IIUC, udev is assigned the task of identifying and classifying stuff correctly. Everything else at "higher" levels of abstraction would depend on those results.
I did a locate on udev and some promising things popped up.
/etc/udev /etc/sysconfig/modules/udev-stw.modules /etc/udev/devices /etc/udev/makedev.d /etc/udev/rules.d /etc/udev/udev.conf
Plus there's a bunch of docs about it up in /usr/share/doc/udev-095, including overview and writing-udev-rules. "man -k udev" offers some potential help too.
I hope there's an answer hidden in there somewhere.
Thanks, including for the chuckle.
Chuckles are free, grins @ $0.01.
I believe the problem is simple really.
fstab has the device listed as LABEL=misc, and HAL reports it as /dev/sdX, the Gnome file manager sees these as 2 separate devices and presents them as such.
Find a way to have Gnome stop scanning the fstab file and have it rely completely on HAL, or have HAL ignore all devices listed in fstab.
-Ross
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