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mikeslr · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 16:21 Post subject: Menu -- Ymount under Filesystem

Hi sheldonisaac,

Sorry sheldonisaac I don't have Ymount on this system.
But having run into Menu problems from time to time, perhaps the following might help:

You mentioned that ymount's executable was /bin/ymount. Click that file to be sure it will start ymount. [Typing ymount in a console will start it if it's anywhere on what Puppy recognizes as the executable path]. If not, search for other instances of what may be ymount executable, browse to it/them and test to find which one actually starts the program.
Open ymount.desktop in geany or some other text editor. You'll be interested in three of its arguments.
Make sure "Exec=" points to ymount's real executable (or a symlink to it). Note the absence of spaces after the "="'s.
Make sure "Icon=" points to an icon which actually exists.
Change Categories= from whatever it is now to
Categories=X-FilesystemUtility.

Restart X.

Hope this helps.

mikesLr

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 937

I repackaged the pet.

The "desktop" files were at the top "/" level instead of in /usr/share/applications.

Should be in your menu now.

Cheers,
s

sheldonisaac · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 908 Location: Philadelphia, PA

(some SNIPping)

L18L · Edited 2011-09-11

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

I noticed the ymount-0.5.png image shows free space as a column.
But when I downloaded ymount-0.4.pet that seems to be missing and ymount-0.5.pet seems unavailable.
Is it still in the works?
Or is there a link to be able to get it as I like the option of having free space displayed.

L18L · Last edited by L18L on Mon 01 Aug 2011, 08:21; edited 1 time in total

stu90 · Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 07:54 Post subject:

Hi L18L,
Thanks for the Ymount update and sorry for the late reply Embarassed

( been playing with woof and dpup over the weekend ) yes this is what i had in mind, i have work this afternoon so will give Ymount a good test later this evening. Cool

cheers.

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

L18L,
Thank you! It just seems to be more complete with the addition of a free space column.
If one is looking to mount a drive/partition with intention of doing a backup to it, the free space column would tell if there was enough room for the backup.
I have had my pupsave overflow from a download going to it rather than /mnt/home and I wonder what would happen if an overflow occured on writing to a partition.
Evidently, Puppy needs work in how it handles that situation.

L18L

Glad to make you happy Very Happy

L18L · Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 10:45 Post subject: ymount Subject description: test

stu90 · Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2011, 07:35 Post subject:

Hi L18L,
Initial test of version 0.5 on lucid 526 RC frugal install - individual windows for drives works ok - having everything one window has some kind of formating problem fo me and i am unable to mount/unmount the usb drives sdb1 sdc1

Looking in Gparted i notice i have 2.49 MiB of unallocated space, could this be the problem?

cheers.

L18L · Edited 2011-09-11

Hi stu90,
thanks for testing

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1327 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day,

Just quickly tried ymount-0.6 on my desktop. Two hard drives each with 15 partitions (three primary and one fully subdivided extended on each). Two optical drives. An external USB 1TB drive of 4 partitions can be added, with several more USB ports around the computer.

Problem 1: sdb lists first 10 partitions by name plus details but remaining partitions just have details - name column is empty. sda OK although the extended partition type is called "unknown" with no total size listed, just 0. Swap partition not listed.

Problem 2: optical drives both listed (sr0 & sr1) but I could not mount a disk in sr0 even with two lines named sr0 and a blank line beneath to try. Clicking on sr0 listed in the first screen had given a new box with an extra sr0 and a blank line beneath. Got message to click on the partition I wished to mount but this message just repeated with clicking <Mount>. Double clicking the sr0 line and ymount disappeared (crashed). Clicking the top-right corner X did not close ymount during the sr0 tests. Same with sr1.

Haven't yet tried any of the USB ports.

Certainly ymount is very quick and has a scroll bar so listings on over-indulged computers like this one aren't lost off the bottom of the screen.

Should be very good by version 1.0.

David S.

L18L · Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2011, 11:53 Post subject:

David,
thanks for testing.

Problem1, I have set up an USB stick containing logical partitions and I am going to fix that. Not showing swap partition is intended

Problem2, the list seems to me messed by errors of problem1.

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2460 Location: Texas, USA

Tried version 0.6, using it with spup, it has promise, however, it fails to recognize all my partitions so it still has some fatal flaws. As seen on the included image, it fails to recognize two partitions, sdb7 and sdb8.