[kde-doc-english] Removable Devices

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

Hi Edward,

Where do you want that add that please? Thanks in advance,

Anne-Marie

On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:31, Edward Haven wrote:
> Removable Disks
> For KDE to read any disk, removable or not, the disk must first be mount.
> When a device is mount it can then be read, it gives KDE all the needed
> information about the device, how to read it, how to write information to
> it, and much more.
> Now that we have an understanding of what mounting is lets see how to mount
> a device.  First know defining a device is controlled by the operating
> system and it is important your operating system has tools for managing
> these devices. KDE can also auto mount devices, working with HAL (Hardware
> Abstraction Layer).
> The Easiest way to find the media device is enter the protocol media:/ or
> system:/media in to the konqueror location bar or navigate to it by:
> 1.clicking on the system tab in the meta bar, followed by selecting Storage
> Media.
> 2.Go -> Media
> 3.clicking the system desktop icon, then Storage Media.
> 4.expanding the System menu on the KDE panel, and selecting Storage Media.
> The media:/ protocol will show all device which are recognized by the KDE,
> including the hard drive and CD and DVD drives. If setup correctly USB and
> Firewire device will also be here.
> You can also setup KDE to deplay a devce icon on the desktop. To start or
> configure this feature in the control panel go to Desktop -> Behavior and
> select the Device Icon Tab. The device icon action can be used to show
> divices when mount and unmount, or to only create an icon when media is
> detected and automounted(only if automount is properly configured), by not
> checking the unmounted boxes.
>
> Automount
>
> With KDE 3.5 and newer, devices can be automount, meaning one only has to
> insert the removation disk. KDE will open an automount prompt asking the
> user "what do you want to do?" with the media. To configure the list of
> options prompted for devices open:
> Conrol Panel -> Peripherals -> Storage Media Here you can add and remove
> programs from the list of devices.
> The automount feature will only work if dbus, hal, udev are installed and
> the kernel is properly configured. To find out if they are running on your
> system cheek the Process Table in KDE System Gaurd for: hald, dbus-deamon,
> and udevd.
> KDE does not provide any of these components. You must cheek with you
> distrobution.
>
> Mounting
>
> If your system does not automount KDE is configure to mount and unmount
> deivce which the current user have permision to mount. If a divce is mount
> as root(ie the root partion), and you login to KDE as a user, KDE can not
> mount or umount it, without being given a higher permission. To cheek a
> devices mount premission see the /etc/fstab file.
> To mount and unmount devices manually in KDE one only has to right click
> the device icon in media:/ or on the desktop and select mount/unmount, for
> removable devices one can also unmount with remove device safty. KDE still
> requires the device to be setup in /etc/fstab.