MX-14: Disk Manager

MX-14
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Introduction

DM provides a graphical presentation of all the partitions on the machine (excluding swap) with a simple interface for quickly and easily mounting, unmounting and editing some properties of disk partitions. Changes are automatically written to /etc/fstab on Save or Exit and are thus preserved for the next boot.

DM automatically allocates mount points in /media, using /media/LABEL (e.g., /media/HomeData) if the partition is labelled or /media/DEVICE (e.g., /media/cdrom) if not. These mount points are created by DM when a partition is mounted, and removed on Save or Exit when a partition is unmounted.

Warnings

Interface

Menu bar

Main window

Bottom buttons

Use

Mounting & Unmounting

To mount/unmount a partition quickly, tick/untick the box at the left end of its entry or use the Mount/Unmount button at the bottom.

Editing

The partition options can be altered using the Edit button. The dialog box that pops up has 3 entries:

Known issue

On some machines for unknown reasons, DM uses: "ntfs (unknown driver)" for ntfs partitions, which is read-only. To change to read/write, take the following steps:
  1. Highlight the partition
  2. Click the Edit button at the bottom
  3. Change the Driver to "ntfs-3g (Read-write driver)"
  4. Save

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