Windows partition desktop icon disappearing

[Ed Sutherland]

Can someone point to a complete tutorial on doing this (putting an icon 
of your Windows partition on your Ubuntu desktop)? Sounds perfect for my 
series of desktop wizards.

Ed


Nicolas da Luz Duque wrote:

>Le samedi 09 avril 2005 à 23:35 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez a écrit : 
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>>I finally got it working. You have to mount your partition under /media,
>>not under /mnt . Or maybe leave them under /mnt but create symlinks
>>under /media. Looks like if you want any device/partition to appear in
>>the "Computer" location or the desktop, you have to put in /media. /mnt
>>won't work.
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>>HTH
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>>--
>>Vince
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>Thanks! It finally works. A interesting thing is that I changed my fstab
>to mount it on /media/windows but adding back the '/' before 'dev/foo'.
>And it still wouldn't work. I told myself this was stupid but I could
>try to delete the '/' again, and that did the trick.
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>So the complete solution for me is deleting the '/' before 'dev/'in the
>fstab AND mounting the partition in media
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