Some Mounting information seems missing?

[Nils Kassube]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
> > OK, now I understand how you mount the partition and I had to do some
> > experiments to understand what happens. If you use this page and
> > enter a mount point for a partition it creates an entry in the file
> > /etc/fstab for the partition. Furthermore it creates the mount point
> > directory. If you then enable the partition it will be mounted.
> > However it isn't useful to go to the administrator mode each time you
> > want to mount the partition. Therefore I suggest you go to that page
> > one more time. Select the sdb5 partition and clich the "Modify ..."
> > button. For the "Mount permission" select "Any user may
> > enable/disable any time" and click "OK". That way you don't need
> > administrator mode to mount the partition.
>
> I opened SystemSettings>Advanced>Disk&Filesystems>Modify,
> there was no mount option that I could see. 

"Mount Permission" not option. But maybe you have a different version of 
the page?

> The window that opened has 
> a box at the top that says
>
>                              Type:  proc
>                               Mount Point:      /proc
>                               Options              defaults
>
> The rest of the window is blank with OK and Cancel options at the
> bottom.

I think you selected the wrong partition. Can you try that again with the 
sdb5 partition?

> > Finally we'll create a shortcut for the partition so you can access
> > it more easily. Right click on the empty desktop and select "Create
> > New" -> "Link to device" -> "Hard disk device ...". At the "General"
> > tab enter a name for the shortcut. At the "Device" tab select the
> > device "/dev/sdb5" and click "OK". Now when you want to access the
> > partition, just click the shortcut and the disk will be mounted if
> > necessary and then it will be opened with Dolphin.
>
> I carefully followed your instruction until the shortcut was on the
> desktop.  When I clicked on the shortcut, I got the following Error -
> KDesktop
> The desktop entry file
> /home/steven/Desktop/%2fdev$2fsdb5 is of type FSDevice but has no
> Dev=...entry.

Did you select the /dev/sdb5 entry of the "Device" tab? Anyway, unless you 
made the mount permission change the shortcut doesn't really help.


Nils