[NTLUG:Discuss] Desktop icons

[Terry]

On 12/29/05, David Ross <davidross at classicnet.net> wrote:
> I had this problem before and for the life of me can't remember
> how I fixed it.
> Plugged my jump drive in and it automounted, all normal
> except this time when I removed it the desktop icon did not
> disappear as usual. So I plugged it back in and it automounted
> and added a second icon (part2) and now that icon is stuck.
> Logging out didn't help, nor did a reboot.


Are you umounting it before removing it from the USB port?

also:
Are you a gnome or kde user?  (Or what?)

>
> Output of mount:
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on / type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
> none on /dev type devfs (rw)
> none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 on /home type ext3 (rw)
> none on /mnt/floppy type supermount
> (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850)
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 on /mnt/win_c type vfat
> (rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850)
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5 on /mnt/win_d type vfat
> (rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850)
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part6 on /mnt/win_e type vfat
> (rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850)
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 on /var type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
>
> cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda6 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto
> umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
> /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto
> umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
> none /mnt/floppy supermount
> dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0
> 0
> none /mnt/removable supermount dev=none,fs=supermount
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
> /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
> /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_e vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda9 /var ext3 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> --
> David Ross
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