Helmut 0 Report post Posted February 3, 2009 Hi Folks, Sorry for asking what seems a stupid question. I used to run Mandriva in GNOME on my dual boot system (Mandriva / Windoze). Now I am trying Mandriva 2009 in KDE. The problem: The for both OS's common partition in vfat / FAT32 has no Icon on the desktop in the KDE Mandriva version, but there was one in the Gnome Version. How can I get it back? Helmut [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greg2 5 Report post Posted February 3, 2009 It may already be mounted and you simply don't have an icon for it yet. What's the output of fdisk -l and cat /etc/fstab Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Helmut 0 Report post Posted February 4, 2009 [hk@localhost ~]$ fdisk -1 bash: fdisk: command not found [hk@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fstab # Entry for /dev/sda3 : UUID=9e615c82-510b-4fb6-8ab7-0f0519ef5ed0 / ext3 defaults 1 1 # Entry for /dev/sda4 : UUID=372F-6EAC /media/gemeinsam vfat umask=0,user,exec 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda1 : UUID=A430203F30201B36 /media/hd ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda2 : UUID=ca0209e0-0437-4e22-b333-d27fbc838de5 swap swap defaults 0 0 [hk@localhost ~]$ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ianw1974 11 Report post Posted February 4, 2009 fdisk can only be ran as root, therefore you have to use: su first and enter root password when prompted. Also, the fdisk parameter is -l or as in lowercase L. Sometimes it's not so clear reading fonts on whether it's an L or an I or a 1. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Helmut 0 Report post Posted February 4, 2009 [hk@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost hk]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x187a1879 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 2423 19462716 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 2424 2576 1228972+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 2577 4266 13574925 83 Linux /dev/sda4 4267 4864 4803435 b W95 FAT32 [root@localhost hk]# Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greg2 5 Report post Posted February 4, 2009 [hk@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fstab-snip- # Entry for /dev/sda4 : UUID=372F-6EAC /media/gemeinsam vfat umask=0,user,exec 0 0 -snip- root@localhost hk]# fdisk -l-snip- /dev/sda4 4267 4864 4803435 b W95 FAT32 -snip- I believe this is your common FAT32 partition, and it's already mounted for you at /media/gemeinsam. Please read this thread to add an icon for that partition: Storage Media icon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Helmut 0 Report post Posted February 5, 2009 (edited) Thanks for the link, Greg2 Unfortunately the KDE4 folder widget, when pointed to the common partition, covers about a quarter of the desktop, and even worse, reveals the contents of the common partition - something I certainly do not want to be dislayed. I put an icon for the Dophin file manager on the desktop as a workaround. That may be as close as it can to an icon for the common partition, being a bit like in Gnome and KDE 3. Pity it doesn't seem to work in KDE4. I sometimes wonder why simple things are encomplicated for no obvious reason. Maybe I should switch back to KDE3... Thanks, Helmut Edited February 5, 2009 by Helmut Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scarecrow 0 Report post Posted February 5, 2009 Maybe I should switch back to KDE3... Thanks, Helmut You should already have done so, till KDE 4 is usable ( I do hope this will be with 4.3). But 4.2 is not worth toying with- I can assure you... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
medo3891 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2009 I beg to differ, kde 4.2 is already working fine here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
