Need partition icon in xfce desktop

Hi All ,
I am using Arch Linux with XFCE. I am just playing with all the options and I like to know how I can put the partition Icon for all the mounted partitions other than "/" partition. My mount tab is like
[root@arch ~]# mount | egrep ^/dev
/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /media/home-deb type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /media/debian type ext3 (rw)
I want to put partition icon for Debian and Debian home. The XFCE is automatically creating the partition icon for all the USB stick that I am plugging in. Not sure how to create partition ICON for internal mounted partitions. Your help will be appreciated.
Regards,
Unni

The only way I know, is to just create a .directory file inside the main directory. Take a look at ~/Desktop/.directory:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=user-desktop
Type=Directory
You might be able to automate this by using a script (like p.e. get the mounted stuff using mount command and have it cp .directory files into the mounted dir's... there has to be a way to call that using udev or hal events or something too), but that's where my knowledge ends - no idea how exactly.
Is there a better way?
Last edited by whoops (2009-05-30 10:23:20)

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