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| SUSE LINUX Documentation Chapter 18. Mobile Computing with Linux / 18.2. Mobile Hardware | ||||
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SUSE Linux supports the automatic detection of mobile storage devices over firewire (IEEE 1394) or USB. The term mobile storage device applies to any kind of firewire or USB hard disk, USB flash drive, or digital camera. These devices are automatically detected and configured via hotplug as soon as they are connected with the system over the corresponding interface. subfs and submount ensure that the devices are mounted to the corresponding locations in the file system. The user is completely spared the manual mounting and unmounting that was found in previous versions of SUSE Linux. A device can simply be disconnected as soon as no program accesses it.
As soon as an external hard disk has been correctly recognized by the
system, its icon appears in (KDE) or
(GNOME) in the list of mounted drives.
Clicking the icon displays the contents of the drive. It is possible
to create folders and files here and edit or delete them. To rename a
hard disk from the name it had been given by the system, select the
corresponding menu item from the menu that opens when the icon is
right-clicked. This name change is limited to display in the file
manager. The descriptor by which the device is mounted in
/media/usb-xxx or
/media/ieee1394-xxx remains unaffected by this.
These devices are handled by the system just like external hard disks. It is similarly possible to rename the entries in the file manager.
Digital cameras recognized by the system also appear as external drives in the overview of the file manager. KDE allows reading and accessing the pictures at the URL camera:/. The images can then be processed using Digikam or The GIMP. When using GNOME, Nautilus displays the pictures in their own folder. A simple image processing and management utility is f-spot. Advanced photo processing is done with The GIMP. For more details on digital cameras and image management, refer to Chapter 15, Digital Cameras and Linux.
