[NTLUG:Discuss] "System"

[Stephen Davidson]

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Leroy Tennison wrote:
| Stephen Davidson wrote:
|> Greetings.
|>
|> This seems to be a Konqueror thing.  On the left of Konqueror, it seems
|> to list a number of tabs, such as "Bookmarks', 'Root', 'Network", etc.
|> One of them is 'System'.
|>
|> System apparently lists Hardware by mount points.  /media/sr1 would be
|> in the /media directory off of /.  SuSE tends to automount stuff like
|> USB drives, CDs, DVDs, etc. in /media.
|>
|> -Steve
|>
|> Leroy Tennison wrote:
|> | On SuSE 10.3, I'm seeing references to "system:/media/sr1" and the
like.
|> |  I looked for sr1 in the file system and found:
|> |
|> | /sys/block/sr1
|> | /dev/sr1
|> | /dev/.udev/names/sr1
|> |
|> | All of these exist and, although /dev/sr1 "has the data" (in raw
mode as
|> | I would expect a block device to be) I'm not finding a "media/sr1"
|> | anywhere.  /dev/.udev/names/sr1 has a \x2fblock\x2fsr1 "file" which
|> | can't be cat'ed even as root (even though the permissions are 644 with
|> | root being the owning user and group).
|> |
|> | Why is konqueror presenting the path this way?  What use is it to me?
|> |
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| Unfortunately that was the first place I looked, no /media/sr1.  This is
| the strangest thing, konqueror opens a new window with the address being
| system:media/sr1 but the highlighted entry being /media/SU1030.001 (the
| actual directory on the file system).  If this is just a knoqueror thing
| I'm not worried but if it's some new "kernel thing" with udev or
| something else then i want to know about it.
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Hi Leroy.

At this point, I can't really say with certainty what's going on.  Maybe
one of the SuSE experts could enlighten us?

- -Steve

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