Quote Originally Posted by rrfish72
I seem to have changed this setting and cannot get hda1 to open like it used to. I tried 'open with...' and tried some different things but they do not work. Help!
rrfish72,

You open those "devices" with either a mount /dev/hda1 etc... command, or by clicking on the icon on the desktop for the specific device ( which will cause a "mount" to be performed, and then a Konq. window to view the files, and folders of that device. )

If you want these devices to be "automatically" mounted during a boot, then a change in your /etc/fstab file is needed for that.

To give an example, here is my fstab file:
Code:
root@Morpheus:~# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass
/dev/hda5  /  ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1
/dev/hda6  /home  auto  defaults,auto  0  2
/dev/hda3 none swap defaults 0 0
usbdevfs  /proc/bus/usb  usbdevfs  defaults  0  0
sysfs  /sys  sysfs  defaults  0  0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 vfat defaults,users,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hdc2 /mnt/hdc2 ext3 defaults,users,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,noatime,umask=000 0 0
/dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
/dev/dvd /dvd  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdaudio1 /cdaudio1  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
root@Morpheus:~#
Take a look at my /dev/hda5, my /dev/hda6, and my /dev/hda3 partitions. My root partition, /dev/hda5, is automatically mounted because it is my root, my /dev/hda3 partition is automatically mounted because it is my swap, and lastly, my /dev/hda6 is my /home partition, and if you look in the "options", or the right side of the information, you will find the word "auto" - during a boot, the OS looks through the fstab file and mounts devices/partitions that it knows it has to mount, and in addition, any devices/partitions that have this "auto" in them.

If you look through my fstab file, you will find every device/partition, other than the three I mentioned above, have the key word option of "noauto" in them - which tells the OS, during a boot, not to automatically mount these devices/partitions. Chances are, in the case of a floppy, or CD-ROM device, you don't want to have them automatically mounted during a boot, because, chances are, they may not have media in them. As for the two other partitions I have listed in my fstab, that are ALSO not automatically mounted, these two partitions hold my Win98 install for Wine support, and my backup Ext3 partition for my main system - in both these cases, I don't automatically need them mounted, and I mount them manually, when I do need them.

Hopefully, this has both answered your question, and given you background on your answer,
Ms. Cuddles