# Disk Mounter Manual

The Disk Mounter applet enables you to quickly mount or unmount various types of drives and file systems from a panel.

2015-2021
MATE Documentation Project
2005
Trent Lloyd
2004
Sun Microsystems
2002
John Fleck
2000
Dan Mueth
MATE Documentation Project
GNOME Documentation Project
MATE Documentation Team
MATE Desktop
Trent
Lloyd
GNOME Documentation Project

    lathiat@bur.st

Sun
GNOME Documentation Team
Sun Microsystems
John
Fleck
GNOME Documentation Project

     jfleck@inkstain.net

Dan
Mueth
GNOME Documentation Project

     muet@alumni.uchicago.edu

Disk Mounter Applet Manual V2.12
July 2015

MATE Documentation Team

MATE Documentation Project

Disk Mounter Applet Manual V2.11
July 2015

Trent Lloyd

GNOME Documentation Project

Disk Mounter Applet Manual V2.10
February 2004

Sun GNOME Documentation Team

GNOME Documentation Project

Disk Mounter Applet Manual V2.0
March 2002

John Fleck jfleck@inkstain.net

GNOME Documentation Project

Drive Mount Applet Manual
April 2000

Dan Mueth muet@alumni.uchicago.edu

GNOME Documentation Project

This manual describes version 1.10.2 of Disk Mounter.

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## Introduction

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The Disk Mounter applet.

The Disk Mounter enables you to quickly mount and unmount various types of drives and file systems.

For the Disk Mounter to work properly, your system administrator must configure your system appropriately. Refer to the fstab 5 for more information about the necessary system administration tasks.

### To Add Disk Mounter to a Panel

To add Disk Mounter to a panel, perform the following steps:

1. Right-click on the panel.

2. Choose Add to Panel.

3. Scroll down the list of items in the Add to Panel dialog, then select Disk Mounter.

4. Click Add.

### Manually Mounting and Unmounting File Systems

Many file systems on Linux and other Unix-like systems must be manually mounted and unmounted.

When a file system is mounted, you can read and write to the file system. When you finish working with a file system, you should unmount the file system.

You must unmount removable drives, such as floppy disks and Zip disks, before you remove the media, because Linux and other Unix-like systems do not always write the changes immediately. Such systems typically buffer the changes to the disk, to improve the speed of the system.

Partitions on fixed drives, such as your hard drive, are typically mounted automatically when your computer boots, and unmounted when your computer shuts down. Removable media must be mounted and unmounted manually, for example by using the Disk Mounter.

Some systems may also automatically mount some removable media (such as USB and IEEE1394 disks), these devices may also come up in the Disk Mounter so that you can unmount them when you are finished, and provide a visual indication that they are present.

## Usage

### To Display the Name and Mount Status of a Drive

To display the name and mount status of a drive, move the mouse pointer to the drive icon in the panel. A tooltip displays the name and mount status of the drive.

### To Mount, Unmount or Eject a Drive

To mount drive, click on the drive icon in the panel and then select the Mount Drive option.

To unmount a drive, click on the drive icon in the panel and then select the Unmount Drive option, or if the device is a CD-ROM Drive, it may be labeled Eject Drive

### To Browse the Contents of a Drive

To use a file manager to browse the contents of a drive, click on the drive icon in the panel, then choose Open Drive.

You can only browse the contents of a mounted drive.