[NTLUG:Discuss] "System"

[Chris Cox]

Stephen Davidson wrote:
> 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).
> |> |
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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?

It's a kio slave (KDE thing).  There are others of course.  Do
kinfocenter and look under Protocols (talking about why Konqueror
shows something at system:media ...