[GRLUG] Firefox on an external drive

[Bob Kline]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Ben DeMott <ben.demott at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Doesn't Ubuntu mount your external media to /media automatically?
> > Otherwise use the df command to see what drives are present, and then use
> > the mount command to mount the drive if it isn't already.
> > (mount with no arguments shows what is currently mounted)
> >
> > If it's not in /media (it should be in /mnt)
>
> It depends on a couple things.  First, is Bob using fstab manually?
> Is he using Ubuntu's GNOME automounter?  Is he using a version prior
> to 9.04?
>
> 9.04 rearranged things such that GNOME's VFS subsystem is now
> accessible to the rest of the Linux system.  I'm guessing they linked
> it in via FUSE or some such.
>
> An experiment: Create a .html file on your external disk, and
> double-click on it in Nautilus.  What does Firefox then say the path
> is?
>

I tried Konqueror, and it finds the external
external drive just fine,  shows it to be at /disk2/,
and lists the contents.

Entering that in to Firefox brings up nothing,
so it does indeed appear to be a Firefox issue.
For now I can just use Konqueror if need be,
but it would still be of interest to know what
Firefox needs to make it happy.

    -- Bob
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