Weird mount problem

[Philippe Landau]

>>can you think of a reason why there is no linux gui utility
>>for mounting drives,
>>this seems something pretty basic and simple, right ?
> I don't really know. Probably because it usually isn't needed? 
> I don't think I've ever seen a gui for mounting drives in 
> windoze, mac, or linux? Usually drives are just detected and 
> displayed on your desktop or file manager.
oh there were many mount utilities.
proprietary expensive ones,
and freeware like the great MountEverything :-)

> I've always found this to be a difficult part of 
> moving people to linux: floppies, cdroms, new drives...
exactly :-)

> KDE is pretty good at displaying all devices it finds.
i did not find a mount utility there either.

> Fortunately, IMHO, your average user 
 > doesn't add new drives frequently.  ;-)
more and more multimedia users do, though.

kind regards     philippe