duplicate desktop icons for media

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Tuesday, September 19th 2006, 1:22pm

why do I get 2 desktop icons for my firewire harddrive ? Memory sticks plugged in only result in 1 being displayed .
KDE 3.5 on Fedora C 5

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minsonj

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Tuesday, September 19th 2006, 6:45pm

RE: duplicate desktop icons for media

issue resolved .

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minsonj

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Wednesday, September 20th 2006, 8:24pm

RE: duplicate desktop icons for media

as it turns out its not resolved . the second icon reappeared

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minsonj

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Wednesday, September 27th 2006, 12:13pm

RE: duplicate desktop icons for media

I have 2 systems running this release both of which exhibit this behavior

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minsonj

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Thursday, September 28th 2006, 12:40pm

RE: duplicate desktop icons for media

Maybe this is it .

I need a static name for the device so root can mount it prior to starting the backup (its the backup device) . So I had a udev rule with a 'NAME=FireDrive2' entry .
What I really wanted was a 'SYMLINK=FireDrive2' entry . After HUP'ing idev and re-attaching the device I now only have one icon (for sdb1) and root can mount using /dev/FireDrive2 .

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minsonj

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Friday, September 29th 2006, 10:53pm

my home system defies all attempts to get rid of the 2nd icon .
one icon is for sdb1 and the other for sdb (this is bogus)

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