CentOS - May 2008 - Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop - SOLVED

I can't think of a better word for this than "weird."

I went back and reread most of the emails on the original thread, and
both Ross and Bill suggested that something about "misc" might be off.

So, I created a new mount point called "other," pointed fstab at it,
modified my scripts and symlinks that used to reference /misc, and
rebooted.

Voila!

/other was automounted, as I wanted, and there's only one icon on the
desktop for it.

I did notice along the way that /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit had a mount -a
with a -t list of types of FSs to mount, which did not include ext2 or
ext3.  I added those, and that did not help the /misc situation.

Apparently, there is something funny about /misc in FC8 (is that true
in CentOS?).

Anyway, problem solved, thanks to all, enjoy your day, etc., etc.

mhr

I should probably add this big mea culpa:

I just had my first experience working in Ubuntu, and, despite my
previous experiences with Alpha Linux 1.x and SuSE 10.1, I am
astounded by the depth of differences between different distros.

So, to the person who pointed out that this was way more than
"slightly" OT for this list, being as how it has to do with FC 8, you
were SO right.  How little did I know (and still, but I'm learning as
fast as it comes).

That's one of the great things about working in computers and software
- there's always more to learn.

mhr