Hard disk icon on desktop

[Derek Broughton]

Michele wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have an NTFS partition on my disk and installed ntfs-3g to have read and
> write access. Modified also the rc.local to mount it at boot.
> The icon of the NTFS partition which was on the desktop has now
> disappeared even if the partition is correctly mounted. I can very happily
> live without it but I would like to know how to put it back there.
> 

Partitions mounted from /etc/fstab generally don't appear on the desktop. 
Removable devices like USB sticks & drives and CD/DVDs automatically appear
on the desktop.
-- 
derek