That's why they call it
"system info" in the openSUSE kio_slave sysinfo:/

Why would you need that info?

houghi

houghi wrote:

Why would you need that info?

You not ;-)

I use it sometimes to see
if my HD is full or empty

houghi wrote:

Why would you need that info?

houghi

You not ;-)

I use it sometimes to see
if my HD is full or empty

VWWall <vwall at (no spam) large.invalid> wrote:

I don't understand. If you open "My Computer" and click on one
of the disk partitions, a window opens showing you the contents
of the disk. If you can't tell by the files present, make a
zero length file in the root partition of each disk with the file
name a name to identify the disk.

I often d/l a file to "/home" in one distro and find I would like to

I just edited fstab, mounting /dev/sda12 to /mnt, (a default directory
in "/"), and it did indeed appear in "My Computer" as "17G Media". An
attempt to unmount failed. I can probably sort out the error message,
but this just illustrates my comments above! I could do it neatly by
making sub-directories under /mnt for each added partition in fsab.

The error: **"Device has /dev/sda12 volume.ignore set to TRUE. Refusing

See Paul Gans' reply and my comment above. It is possible to make it
show partitions by another identifier than size, but it requires some
extra work.

Not much though.

Maybe I'm missing something. Tell me how to do it.

EOS wrote:
houghi wrote:

Why would you need that info?
You not ;-)

I use it sometimes to see
if my HD is full or empty

df

df shows only mounted partitions + (/dev) and Use%

I just edited fstab, mounting /dev/sda12 to /mnt, (a default directory
in "/"), and it did indeed appear in "My Computer" as "17G Media". An
attempt to unmount failed. I can probably sort out the error message,
but this just illustrates my comments above! I could do it neatly by
making sub-directories under /mnt for each added partition in fsab.

See Paul Gans' reply and my comment above. It is possible to make it
show partitions by another identifier than size, but it requires some
extra work.

Why would I, in Linux, care if this is sde1 or hdd12 or
penne:/home/houghi (sshfs) or some NFS mount or whatever? The only two
moments I would care about this (and it could be done in one step) is
during installation and then placing all the systems into fstab.

On Tuesday 27 Oct 2009 17:54, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
VWWall painted this mural:

snip

I just edited fstab, mounting /dev/sda12 to /mnt, (a default directory
in "/"), and it did indeed appear in "My Computer" as "17G Media". An
attempt to unmount failed. I can probably sort out the error message,
but this just illustrates my comments above! I could do it neatly by
making sub-directories under /mnt for each added partition in fsab.

Snip useful instructions. The partition lay-out is very close to mine

See Paul Gans' reply and my comment above. It is possible to make it
show partitions by another identifier than size, but it requires some
extra work.

Not much. Give each file system a unique label and then you'll get to
see those that are mounted under "My Computer". You can do this using
tune2fs for ext2 and ext3 file systems[0]. Other file systems have
ways of doing this as well.

Strangely enough, openSUSE already has /dev/disk/by-label, which shows

[0] This might also work with ext4 but can't confirm or deny it as yet.

I haven't played with ext4 yet as my GRUB boot can't handle it without

Using Konqueror, right-click and select "properties" or, using KDE4,
open Dolphin and do the same.

I can edit fstab, using YAST if desired, to mount any or all non-SUSE
partitions.

These then show only by approximate size. Sure, I can open
each, hoping to find the one I want to copy to, but identifying them by
almost anything other then size would be helpful.

Why not have *all* partitions, not just SUSE and Windows, appear in
fstab using noauto as mount.

Then "My Computer", that terrible Windows
left-over, could show them all and allow mounting/unmounting by a simple
right-click, as it now does for the ones it shows.

Many distros have avoided using "My Computer" by having an entry like:
"System>>Storage Media" which shows all partitions on the system.

It can be handy when doing a reinstall - in the partition editor you can
see that /sde1 has a label of Home so you know to assign it to /home
when setting up the partitions. Or maybe /hdd12 is the /var partition
so you label it Var. Or whatever.

And after installing, it's easy to identify what partition is what even
if they're not installed...

David Bolt wrote:
Using Konqueror, right-click and select "properties" or, using KDE4,
open Dolphin and do the same.

That is all KDE stuff.

You can use gparted or even much better:
/usr/sbin/parted -l
That will show clearly all the information in a readable form.

And using df to add the name of the directory if available as well as
the free space. Simple.

David Bolt wrote:

Not much. Give each file system a unique label and then you'll get to
see those that are mounted under "My Computer". You can do this using
tune2fs for ext2 and ext3 file systems[0]. Other file systems have
ways of doing this as well.

Strangely enough, openSUSE already has /dev/disk/by-label, which shows
*all* partitions that have been given labels.

It shows my "PCLOS_root",
which is the only one I labeled. It doesn't seem to use these entries
for anything.

Some distros default to labels if they find partition labels on the
drive(s).

A right click on these "names" allows mounting the partition, checking
its properties, etc. just as "My Computer" in openSUSE does.

[0] This might also work with ext4 but can't confirm or deny it as yet.

I haven't played with ext4 yet as my GRUB boot can't handle it without
chain loading. Just the inode changes some distros make by default, if
you let their install do the formatting, confuses legacy GRUB!

What you need to know as root is what sda1 sda2 and sda3 contain.

If you do not know that, then openSUSE does not know that.