FAT32 stealth hard drive at /dev/hdb?

[Brian Durant]

 --- Ian Malone <ibm21 at cam.ac.uk> skrev: 
> 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.

OK, assuming that is the case, it should still be
possible to create a shortcut under Cumputer -> Disks
that accesses the mount point, in my case /mnt/fat32
and give the illusion of a seperate disk, which is of
course the reality. If you get my point. When I tryied
the same, df -h returned:

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde1              75G  2.4G   69G   4% /
tmpfs                 443M     0  443M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb1              75G  492K   75G   1% /mnt/fat32

Cheers,

Brian