I've been using debian Lenny with KDE desktop and I'm messing around (on different computers, fresh installations) with a view to upgrading to Squeeze.
In Squeeze with KDE 4, the Dolphin file manager shows my Data partition. If I click on it, it refuses to mount it. It seems from googling that this is some kind of bug. But, in the course of messing about with it, I tried to unmount it at one stage and it said that it was not mounted by Hal and the device to unmount was not in /media/.hal-mtab. It also wouldn't mount it at one point, permission denied, because it was listed in /etc/fstab. So it seems that Hal and fstab are alternatives of some sort?
Can somebody give me a bit of a clue as to what this Hal thing is and how it relates to fstab? I can't remember coming across it when I sorted out mounting and unmounting my Data partition in Lenny. (Did they call it that because it's just like the computer in 2001 "I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave...." )
In Squeeze with KDE 4, the Dolphin file manager shows my Data partition. If I click on it, it refuses to mount it. It seems from googling that this is some kind of bug. But, in the course of messing about with it, I tried to unmount it at one stage and it said that it was not mounted by Hal and the device to unmount was not in /media/.hal-mtab. It also wouldn't mount it at one point, permission denied, because it was listed in /etc/fstab. So it seems that Hal and fstab are alternatives of some sort?
Can somebody give me a bit of a clue as to what this Hal thing is and how it relates to fstab? I can't remember coming across it when I sorted out mounting and unmounting my Data partition in Lenny. (Did they call it that because it's just like the computer in 2001 "I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave...." )
