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(/dev directory) as hardware is added and removed from the computer. The Hardware Abstraction
layer (HAL) provides the overall platform for discovering and configuring hardware. Settings that
are of interest to someone using a desktop Linux system, however, can be configured with easy-touse
desktop tools.
The following sections describe how removable hardware and media are configured, using a
GNOME desktop in Fedora or a KDE desktop in SUSE.
Removable Media on a GNOME Desktop
The GNOME desktop offers the Removable Drives and Media Preferences window to define what
happens when you attach removable devices or insert removable media into the computer. The
descriptions in this section are based on GNOME 2.16.
From a GNOME desktop, select System???Preferences???Removable Drives and Media to see how
your system is configured to handle removable hardware and media. Figure 4-3 shows an example
of that window.
FIGURE 4-3
Change removable hardware and media settings in GNOME.
The following settings are available from the Removable Drives and Media Preferences window on
the Storage tab. These settings relate to how removable media are handled when they are inserted
or plugged in:
Mount removable drives when hot-plugged??”When a removable drive (such as a USB
hard drive) is plugged into a running system, that drive is automatically mounted in a
subdirectory of /media.
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