Kubuntu vs. Ubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

Marti Andrews wrote:

Please don't top post.  How are we supposed to have a conversation?

> Okay here I am in KDE, over top of Ubuntu. I keep reading about this fstab
> folder, I don't have one.

Yes you do.

> And once again, I can't find my usb drive, or my 
> other hard drive, in order to get to the contents of them. 

You're not reading very well.  Hard drives don't get put on the desktop by
default.  If you want them you can have them, and instructions were given. 
However, it's pointless - Unix uses a unified filesystem view.  Your
windows partition is mounted wherever it says in /etc/fstab, and you browse
to files in the NTFS partition the same way you find any other file on the
system

USB drives, otoh, should _always_ show up on the desktop _when_ you plug
them in, and not before.  I admit, mine stopped briefly last week, and I
can't exactly remember what I restarted to fix it.  I either did:

# sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart

which is a sort of catch-all that works almost as well as Windows reboot, or
I went into the KDE menu > System Settings/Advanced/Service Manager, and
restarted either the "Media Notifier Daemon" or the "KDED Media Manager"

> In GNOME, the 
> icon of the usb drive was right on my desktop and it was easy to add the
> other one as well.

In KDE you should never need to "add" a usb drive to your desktop - it's
either there, or not.
-- 
derek