[mdlug] External Hard Drives: Mounting, Unmounting, Partial Mounting?

[Rich Clark <rrclark@rrclark.net>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Elisa Gomez wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:56:50 -0500
> From: Aaron Kulkis <akulkis3 at hotpop.com>
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] External Hard Drives: Mounting,
> Unmounting, Partial Mounting?
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>> So now it should be mounted, correct? But that's not
>> reflected in X. There's nothing graphical to
> indicate
>> that it's mounted and I can't save a file (in X, I
>> don't know how to do it via the command line) to the
>> drive or anything. Can I rename it manually so it
>> stops renaming itself every time I suspend?
>>
>> ~Elisa
>
>> I use openSuSe and KDE, and everything
> JustWorks(tm).
>
> Well. That's not terribly helpful ;)
>
> But I *am* considering switching from Ubuntu. There
> are a lot of things that irk me about it, mainly that
> I can't have a damn root account. I'd like to be able
> to just log in as root, get a bunch of
> system-affecting tasks done and log back out like a
> normal person without having to sudo this and sudo
> that and reenter my password every 15 minutes. Drives
> me nuts.
>
> And I *like* Gnome! I tried KDE briefly -- wasn't for
> me, it reminded me too much of Macs.

Then run sudo -i. Same thing as having root, only safer.