a number of minor issues from a n00b

[xSauronx]

anywa to get automount to not look for a floppy drive?

I've always had the same issue on my laptop. Yes, you can turn off the automounter. Just run:

/etc/init.d/autofs stop

If you want to stop it permanently (and trust me you do) then also run:

update-rc.d -f autofs remove

i did this, it still stalls for 1-2 minutes when i graphically broswe /mnt

My dvd drive is the Primary Slave so it's called /dev/hdb. I just do this:

ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/dvd

when booting, it says my dvd/rw is hdc

but i have *no* /mnt/hdc or /dev/hdc at all....wth? how do i use my dvd drive if its not seeing it there?

-new question- how do i find which "folders" are linked to which partitions? i have partition hda6 that is showing as 30gb and almost full, im pretty sure i have hda6 set as /home but my /home has under 50meg in it; where do i find out what else is using this parition so i can get my data?

-also- qparted shows hda8 as ~35gigs, and almost full. but if i look at hda8 from the desktop link i see....nothing. nada. is something wrong? or is it similar to my above situation; that i just dont know what im looking for?

thanks so much guys