Feek's adventures with Linux

[Garp]

Originally Posted by Desmo

Can anybody help with this little problem?

I've got two drives mounted that I don't want to show in Ubuntu. They're partitions for the Dell Utility and Dell Media.

If I try and right click and unmount it says I don't have the correct permissions (root). If I try and unmount them in a terminal window it says the drives can't be found. Now, I'm assuming I'm using the correct information but not 100% sure. It was something like sudo umount -f and then the disk name.

Any ideas where I'm going wrong? I can put up the full info later on.

Open up a terminal session, and type in

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Inside there you'll see the details for all your mount points. Just find the lines for the mount points you don't want / need and put a "#" symbol at the start of the line. Next time you reboot the mount points will be gone.

Whilst you've got the terminal up, try:

sudo umount /path/to/mountpoint

For each of the dell partitions you don't want. That should clear them up from your current session.

[Stan_Lite]

I haven't messed around with Ubuntu for ages. I re-installed Windows on my main rig yesterday and created a partition for Ubuntu. I've downloaded and burned Hardy Heron Beta to a disk and am about to install it. Will be having a bit of a play with that over the next few days.

[Desmo]

Cheers Jarp, will give that a go when I get home

Whilst I'm here, why do I sometimes see gk added to a commang. eg. sudo OR gksudo? What's the difference?

[Garp]

Originally Posted by Desmo

Cheers Jarp, will give that a go when I get home

Whilst I'm here, why do I sometimes see gk added to a commang. eg. sudo OR gksudo? What's the difference?

sudo just asks your password at the command line, gksudo does it through the GUI.

The GUI for Ubuntu is called GNOME, and the interface for it GDK, so sometimes you'll find references to them in program names

[Desmo]

Ah right, cheers

[Desmo]

Worked a treat....kind of

The partitions are now not showing on the desktop, but the still show in "Computer" with an option to mount them I'd rather they were totally hidden but it's no biggy.

[Desmo]

Originally Posted by DRZ

If you think your laptop is up for it, install Compiz Fusion and the compizconfig-settings-manager (in the repositories). Its so nice!

It sure is. I came pre-installed with 7.10 and I've been having a play with it. Got the cube kind of working although it doesn't do what I think I've seen it do in some videos. Mine just rotates to the next screen whereas I'm sure I've seen a solid cube with all the sides showing.

[Daz]

CTRL+ALT then hold the left button, will let you rotate it freely

[Dr. Z]

windows key + e is also cool, also hold ctrl+alt and then click and drag the desktop

If you haven't already:

sudo apt-get install emerald

(plus compizconfig-settings-manager if you dont have it already )

[Desmo]

Ah, cheers guys

Yep, got the Comiz settings manager installed. Not done Emerald yet so will take a look now