[NBLUG/talk] Mounting a drive using Fedora 3

[Eric Eisenhart]

Todd,

What exactly are you trying to do?  From an earlier posting, it sounds like
you're just trying to get to media in the CD and floppy drives...

If that's all you're trying to do, try just sticking something in the drive
and see if it gets automatically mounted ("mount" or "df" will show this). 
If it doesn't, run "mount /media/cdrom" or "mount /media/floppy"; you
shouldn't even need to be root to do it, just logged in at the console. 
Then "umount /media/cdrom" or "umount /media/floppy" when you're done.

There's a whole new infrastructure (HAL) that's designed to automatically
handle these things for you, for the most part.  If you have one of those
keychain USB drives, you can generally just put it in a USB port and it'll
be automatically mounted.

I don't know about KDE, but if you're using GNOME for your desktop, look for
"Removable Storage" (or maybe "Drives and Media"...) in Preferences.  You
should be able to turn on auto-mounting of media and auto-browsing, even.

The "VolGroup" and "LogVol" stuff is all about storage on your hard drives. 
It's what makes it possible to install a second hard drive and grow your "/"
or swap partitions onto the new drive without having to move everything onto
new filesystems.  It's generally not stuff that you mess with.
-- 
Eric Eisenhart
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The North Bay Linux Users Group -- http://nblug.org/
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