Automount cd-rom/floppy and add desktop icons?

[haywire]

I recently had to restart my system due to a total hard drive failure.
Every time I do, I forget this. I will write it down this time and save it so I don't need to bug you guys here next time.
I'd like to automount the cd-rom drive and floppy drive, and add desktop icons to access them.
I'd also like to create and automount a ramdrive, and add a desktop icon as well.

New system is up and running great with vl 6.0, I just miss my old icons and I can't for the life of me remember how to add these things.

I'm using xfce, and trying out compiz-fuzion with emerald. Not sure if that makes any difference?

Steven

[stretchedthin]

Sorry to throw a couple more screencasts at you but it sounds like you are deciding between using hal vs vl-hot as a mounter here.    So here is a couple screencasts to show you a little about both.
The case for hal.
The case for vl-hot
Not sure how to answer the ramdrive question, maybe someone else.

[nightflier]

You may already be using a form of ramdrive. Check output of "df -h", look for a line with "tmpfs". An advantage of tmpfs over a fixed size ramdrive is that it scales dynamically, spilling over into swap if necessary.

I mount my /tmp directory in RAM using this line in /etc/fstab:
tmpfs   /tmp        tmpfs rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async,noatime 0  0

[haywire]

I found out how to mount and add a floppy icon, and cd-rom drive icon...still not sure on the hard drive icon. I can use the file system one, but now I have just the one drive. I plan on adding 3 more hd's to this
pc, and I'd just like an icon for each one. 

Still not sure how to create a ram drive and have an icon on the screen to access it...

I see tmpfs when I use the df -h command.

Can I just thunar dev/shm to access this ram drive? Resizeable like that would be awesome. Maybe this is what I had before, I don't think so, before it was a set size... I'd actually rather it be resizable...

Thanks for everyones thoughts, except for these few thinks, vector is rocking like crazy on this pc...
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Steven

[nightflier]

There are a lot of icons in /usr/share/icons that you can use.

Don't mess with /dev/shm
Try a little experimenting, in a terminal, as root:

Code:

mkdir /tempdir
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tempdir

You should now have /tempdir mounted in memory, with a size that is half of your RAM.

To make this permanent, use a line in fstab as outlined earlier.

[haywire]

Nightflier,

That will be fine for what I need, can you please describe for me how to get to fstab or edit fstab? I don't believe I've done this before...

Steven

[nightflier]

As root, in a terminal, use the following command (you can copy and paste into the terminal):
mcedit /etc/fstab

Copy this line:
tmpfs   /tempdir    tmpfs rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async,noatime 0  0

In the terminal, scroll down to the section that looks like this:

Code:

# Shared memory filesystem:
tmpfs   /dev/shm    tmpfs rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async,noatime 0  0

Paste new line below the one above, using key combination "Shift+Insert", so it looks like this:

Code:

# Shared memory filesystem:
tmpfs   /dev/shm    tmpfs rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async,noatime 0  0
tmpfs   /tempdir    tmpfs rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async,noatime 0  0

Press F2 to save, F10 to exit.
Issue command "mount -a"

Done. On subsequent boots it will mount automatically.

[StrayBit]

You should now have /tempdir mounted in memory, with a size that is half of your RAM.

root:# mcedit /etc/fstab
root:# mount /tempdir
root:# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
...
tmpfs                 186M     0  186M   0% /dev/shm
shm                   186M     0  186M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                 186M     0  186M   0% /tempdir

Apparently we have to limit ourselves to only using half the memory?
Just realized 186M IS half my RAM!

Thanks Nightflier.  Have wondered for a long time why those two files were there and didn't seem to do anything.  At least, now I can use some of that memory.

[nightflier]

It is somewhat confusing. The "half of your RAM" is the upper limit of what tmpfs will use, not the actual usage. I agree it's a good way of putting more of your memory to use.