Device management --where?

[dibl]

Re: Device management --where?

@Mike, I noticed an odd phenomenon this morning that may relate to your original question. I'll skip the part about "I tore my computer apart, replaced the 9600GT with my new GTX260, pulled a WD1500 and a Maxtor 6L200PO and replaced them with a WD1002FBYS ......" -- that was the easy part. :P

I used "kdesudo konqueror" to open Konqueror in root mode, and opened my /media directory to look at my new hard drive arrangements. It was a blank window! Hmmmm. I clicked the "View > Reload" menu item, and the hardware all showed up. Why wouldn't it show up the first time? I have no clue .....

[Qqmike]

Re: Device management --where?

@dibl, I booted into 8.10 to try View > Reload (using kdesudo and otherwise) -- didn't work. I made several attempts, both repeating and closing out and starting fresh, etc. -- Nothing.

[flarson]

Re: Device management --where?

"aptitude search part" shows a number of interesting options including
partitionmanager - partition manager for KDE
qtparted - A parted frontend using Qt

You should probably look at both of them.

Also K-> Applications->System->Hardware Viewing gives a comprehensive tree of devices that includes disk controllers, disks and partitions, right down to HAL and dbus info.

Also
"kcmshell4 kcm_partition" gives another presentation of the same data.

You might find something in there that is satisfactory.

[kyonides]

Re: Device management --where?

Did you notice that in some cases Intrepid (maybe Jaunty too) lacks apps like KInfoCenter that could be found in Hardy? For some weird reason it disappeared in Intrepid and I had to install it manually but at least now it shows me all the partitions (swaps included), their total, free and used space.

[dibl]

Re: Device management --where?

Mostly I use Dolphin -- the left panel shows the devices, with their labels if you happened to have labeled them. But it's not the nice graphic that you get with Ubuntu's little gnome-monitor utility -- I've always wished you could something that looks like that in Kubuntu. There are some other disk-viewing packages, like filelight, but they're not as intuitive to my eye. The Kinfocenter partitions view is as close as we get, I'm afraid.