Access your data volumes

You can easily access your files on connected storage devices (harddisks, cd, floppy, usb) using the buttons in the upper right corner of your desktop, as well your local network shares and remote internet accounts. Your partitions are automatically mounted in the /mnt directory, which you see linked in your home as Volumes. You can read and write on all your volumes except for NT filesystems, which you can only read.

Usb storage devices (like usb pens, smartcards and some digital photo cameras) can be opened simply with a double click on the usb symbol. But beware that sometimes unusual partition schemes can confuse the autodetection, so you can try by hand in a Xterminal issuing manual commands:

[d:b] ~ # mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/usb [Enter]

Where you must substitute X with letters (a,b,c...) and Y with numbers (1,2,3) for example /dev/sda2.

If you have only one cdrom or dvd player on your computer with docking you can have it free for use after booting dyne:bolic (see following chapter about DOCKING), then you can access, browse, play and rip compact discs and dvd.

To have a general overview about the organization of various directories you find in GNU/Linux systems, read the manual hier (type "man hier" in the Xterminal).