Mapping drives

[Accessless]

Is it possible to map drives in Linux? I.e. home directory as C:\, disk drives as D:\ instead of /dev/sr'x'?

SUSE 11.1 KDE desktop.

[Rob Pomeroy]

Linux has a single file system starting at the root "/".  Everything has to be "mounted" to it.  So you create a directory, e.g. "/mnt/cdrom" and the CDROM is then attached to that directory.  If you think about it, it makes more sense than having a logical limit of 26 different drives.  In a networked environment, it's easy to exceed 26.

Look up the HowTo on mounting devices for more info.

[Accessless]

Right I have successfully mounted my Windows C drive, yes it works very badly... The only thing now is how do I retain mounted drives after a shutdown or restart?

[Rob Pomeroy]

Check out the file /etc/fstab.  >This article< might help.