Hard disk icon on desktop

[Albert Charron]

Michele wrote:
>
>
> On 10/3/07, *Albert Charron* <albert at albertcharron.name 
> <mailto:albert at albertcharron.name>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     >
>     > Michele
>     Try to configure your drives with the ntfs-3g tool
>     (Applications->System
>     tools->NTFS configuration tools) instead of rc.local... the NTFS tool
>     will add the drives to /etc/fstab with both read and write
>     permissions... For me, it's working as expected and my ntfs partitions
>     are showing correctly on the desktop.
>
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> Hello Albert,
>
> Did what you said, but still no icon showing. I noticed in the 
> /etc/fstab file that my root, home and swap are identified by a UUID 
> rather than by the usual /dev/sdaX. (or hdaX).
> Could this be the problem?
>
> To be perfectly honest with you I really don't care about having an 
> icon on my desktop, but I would like to know how to do it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michele
my NTFS partitions are with the /dev/hdax too, so this isn't the 
problem.  Now, what's the problem exactly, honestly, I don't know.  I'm 
not new to Linux, but I'm relatively new to Ubuntu and Gnome, so I can't 
help. Sorry. I hope someone can help, I'd be happy to know the solution too!

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  Albert Charron
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