FAT32 stealth hard drive at /dev/hdb?

[Ian Malone]

Vram wrote:

<snip: on nautilus>

 > Plus I don't do much GUI stuff, so I wasn't real familiar with that...

 > So unmounted partitions in the fstab show up as disk drives.

 > I guess my next question is..

 > Why create a partition and not use it??

 > I user all mine....


 > Vram at Aether:~ $ df -h
 > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 > /dev/hda3             7.5G  183M  7.3G   3% /
 > tmpfs                 380M     0  380M   0% /dev/shm
 > /dev/hda1              96M   13M   79M  14% /boot
 > /dev/hda9             9.4G  304M  9.1G   4% /home
 > /dev/hda7             4.6G   37M  4.4G   1% /tmp
 > /dev/hda5             4.7G  1.7G  3.0G  37% /usr
 > /dev/hda8             2.8G   92M  2.6G   4% /usr/local
 > /dev/hda6             4.7G  352M  4.4G   8% /var
 > /dev/hda10            9.4G   33M  9.3G   1% /work
 > /dev/hdb5             9.4G  137M  9.2G   2% /image

These are all permanent disc partitions divided up to provide
components of the Unix tree.  My impression of the Gnome feature
is that it is meant to give access to removeable media which may
not always be mounted: CDs, floppys, memory sticks, external hard
drives etc.

In the case of a second hard drive to be used as extra storage
space (especially one bought for a single use machine after the
system is established, or one shared with another OS on a dual
boot machine) it may be useful for Gnome to present it under the
'computer' folder for easier access.  The most straightforward
way to do that is to pretend it is removeable media.  There may
well be less straightforward ways, but I don't know them.

-- 
imalone