No Icon on Desktop for always-on usbdisk

[Joe Burgess]

So wait, the icon for the external always on drive, only show up after 
you plug in and then umount a usb pen drive? but it never shows up in 
any other case?  Is that correct?

Thomas Amberger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Am Freitag 14 März 2008 22:21:17 schrieb Steve McMaster:
>   
>> I believe that unless you mount your USB disk via the KDE interface, as
>> opposed to mounting in on the command line or putting it in /etc/fstab,
>> the icon will not appear on your desktop.
>>
>>     
>
> i mount it in /etc/fstab, i tryed to umount and take the usb away, the icon 
> disapears, when i put the usb in, the device mounts and there is no icon, ok.
>
> After a reboot there is also no icon, ok. When i use a usb-stick or so, it 
> will be mounted, and a icon for it is shown on the desktop. So far so good, 
> but for my always on usb-drive also appears the icon now and it did not 
> disapear when i umount the other usb-device ??
>
> Thomas
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