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Version &manrevision; &date; Trent Lloyd MATE Documentation Project &appname; Applet Manual V2.1 February 2004 Sun GNOME Documentation Team MATE Documentation Project Disk Mounter Applet Manual V2.0 March 2002 John Fleck jfleck@inkstain.net MATE Documentation Project Drive Mount Applet Manual April 2000 Dan Mueth muet@alumni.uchicago.edu MATE Documentation Project This manual describes version &appversion; of &appname;. Disk Mounter

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The &app; enables you to quickly mount and unmount various types of drives and file systems. For the &app; to work properly, your system administrator must configure your system appropriately. For more information about the necessary system administration tasks, see fstab5. To add &app; to a panel, right-click on the panel, then choose Add to Panel. Select &app; in the Add to the panel dialog, then click OK. Many file systems on Linux and UNIX systems must be manually mounted and unmounted. When a file system is mounted, you can read and write to the file system. When you finish working with a file system, you should unmount the file system. You must unmount removable drives, such as floppy disks and Zip disks, before you remove the media, because Linux and UNIX systems do not always write the changes immediately. Such systems typically buffer the changes to the disk, to improve the speed of the system. Partitions on fixed drives, such as your hard drive, are typically mounted automatically when your computer boots, and unmounted when your computer shuts down. Removable media must be mounted and unmounted manually, for example by using the &app;. Some systems may also automatically mount some removable media (such as USB and IEEE1394 disks), these devices may also come up in the &app; so that you can unmount them when you are finished, and provide a visual indication that they are present. To display the name and mount status of a drive, move the mouse pointer to the drive icon in the panel. A tooltip displays the name and mount status of the drive. To mount drive, click on the drive icon in the panel and then select the Mount Drive option. To unmount a drive, click on the drive icon in the panel and then select the Unmount Drive option, or if the device is a CD-ROM Drive, it may be labelled Eject Drive To use a file manager to browse the contents of a drive, click on the drive icon in the panel, then choose Open Drive. You can only browse the contents of a mounted drive.