a problem with thunar

[Greg Folkert]

On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 19:15 +0800, Spuch wrote:
> > Spuch <spuch2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > hi everyone,
> > >
> > > i'm used to mounting my internal partitions in left side pane of
> > > GNOME's Nautilus because they're just there,listed in Places.
> > > in xfce,i can't do that any more with thunar! how to solve this
> > > problem. hope any expert to help me.i like xfce's speed and i don't
> > > want to come back to GNOME.
> > > thx.
> >
> > That's by intention. Normal users usually don't have any control over
> > internal partitions. So what's the point in displaying them if there is
> > no way to do anything with them (like mount/unmount).
> >
> > Also, should users really be confronted with the concept of partitions?
> > I don't think so.
> >
> >  - Jannis
> 
> here,I have 3 NTFS partitions which aren't mounted automatically at
> boot time.now,the problem is how to manipulate files on them as normal
> users.Should I type 'gnome-mount -p' + volume label every time I want
> to do that?

Its all in how you spec them in /etc/fstab

#Windows
/dev/foop	/mnt/windows	ntfs-3g		defaults,user,force,noauto	0	4

Obviously foop is the filler for the valid device.

If you know the option there, it makes it very easy.
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