May 18th, 2008
File system
On start up, only file system partition is mounted. To automatically mount other volumes, edit /etc/fstab and add lines like this for every partition you want to mount:
/dev/sda3 /media/data ntfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other 0 0
Use
fdisk -l
to find out partition names and create destination folders.
Use sudo mount -a to mount everything from fstab and test if everything is correct.
File management
Using Nautilus and mouse for file operations is too slow. Clicking on icons and toolbar items to reach some point in the filesystem, then using drag & drop to copy or move files somewhere else is so slow. Old school, two panel file browsers are way to go. Norton commander was such application, used in old DOS days, and it’s followed now by many clones. Gnome commander is the best choice for Gnome environment.