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      <para>&appname; enables you to quickly mount or unmount various 
        types of drives and file systems from a panel.</para>
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    <copyright>
      <year>2005</year>
      <holder>Trent Lloyd</holder>
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      <year>2004</year>
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    <primary>Disk Mounter</primary> 
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  <!-- ============= Introduction  ================================ -->
  <sect1 id="drivemountapplet-intro">
    <title>Introduction</title>

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    <para>
      The &app; enables you to quickly mount and unmount various types of drives and file systems. 
    </para>
    <para>
      For the &app; to work properly, your system administrator must configure your system appropriately. For more information about the necessary system administration tasks, see <ulink url="man:fstab" type="man"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></ulink>.
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     <title>To Add &appname; to a Panel</title>
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     <guimenuitem>Add to Panel</guimenuitem>.  Select &app; in the
     <application>Add to the panel</application> dialog, then click
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    <sect2 id="drivemount-intro-mount">
      <title>Manually Mounting and Unmounting File Systems</title>
      <para>
        Many file systems on Linux and UNIX systems must be manually mounted and unmounted. 
      </para>
      <para>
        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. 
      </para>
      <para>
        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. 
      </para>
      <para>
        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;.  
      </para>
      <para>
        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.
      </para>
    </sect2>

  </sect1>

  <!-- ============= Usage  ================================ -->
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    <title>Usage</title>

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    <title>To Display the Name and Mount Status of a Drive</title>
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    <title>To Mount, Unmount or Eject a Drive</title>
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        To mount drive, click on the drive icon in the panel and then select the <guimenuitem>Mount Drive</guimenuitem> option.
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    <sect2 id="drivemount-usage-browse">
    <title>To Browse the Contents of a Drive</title>
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        To use a file manager to browse the contents of a drive, click on the drive icon in the panel, then choose <guimenuitem>Open Drive</guimenuitem>.
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        You can only browse the contents of a mounted drive.
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