Re: how to get a mounted USB stick icon on desktop

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:36:21 -0400, H. S. <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Apparently, _Andrea Vettorello_, on 30/10/04 04:06,typed:
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:44:18 +0200, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
> > <luis@valla.org> wrote:
> >
> >>El Viernes, 29 de Octubre de 2004 21:25, H. S. escribió:
> >>
> >>>I am using udev to detect and mount a USB external floppy drive. When I
> >>>mount the floppy drive, an icon appears on the desktop and when I umount
> >>>it, it dissappears.
> >>
> >>Please, how do you to make the icon appear on the desktop?
> >>
> >
> >
> > With Gnome, and so this means with Nautilus, i think the icons of
> > mounted drives appear on the desktop if they are present in your
> > /etc/fstab with sensible names.
> 
> 
> Could you explain what you mean by "sensible names"? If there is
> something to this, then maybe I need to change the names I give. e.g.
> the USB memory stick is /dev/hs-jd-usb and mounted on /media/usbstick.
> 

Until i changed the mountpoint in fstab about a Iomega Zip to
"zipdisk", Nautilus didn't showed the mounted disk as a zip disk icon.
=)


Andrea