# Discos extraibles

Para que &kde; utilice cualquier dispositivo, extraíble o no, el dispositivo debe estar montado. Cuando se monta un dispositivo, &kde; obtiene toda la información que necesita sobre el dispositivo: cómo leer en él, como escribir información en él, y mucha más.

Now that we have an understanding of what mounting is let's see how to mount a device. The use of a device is controlled by the operating system and it is important your operating system has tools for managing these devices. &kde; can also auto mount devices, working with HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer). Your distribution should have set up HAL automatically; if not, consult the documentation provided by your distribution.

Existen varias formas de encontrar la lista de los dispositivos de medios. Puede utilizar la que prefiera:

- Introduzca `media:/` o `system:/media` en la barra de dirección de &konqueror;.

- Navigate to it by clicking on the Services tab in &konqueror;'s Navigation Panel, them selecting Storage Media.

- Seleccione Ir Medios de almacenamiento del menú de &konqueror;.

- Pulse en el icono del escritorio del Sistema, y en la ventana que aparezca pulse en Medios de almacenamiento.

La dirección Medios de almacenamiento (también conocida como protocolo media:/) mostrará todos los servicios reconocidos por &kde;, incluyendo las unidades de disco duro, &CD; y DVD, así como los dispositivos USB y Firewire, que su distribución haya configurado correctamente e informe a &kde; sobre ellos.

You can also setup &kde; to display a device icon on the desktop. To start or configure this feature in the control panel go to Desktop Behavior and select the Device Icon Tab. The device icon action can be used to show both mounted and unmounted devices, or to only create an icon when media is detected and automounted (only if automount is properly configured), by not checking the unmounted boxes.

## Montado automático

With &kde; 3.5 and newer, devices can be automount, meaning one only has to insert the removation disk. &kde; will open an automount prompt asking the user "What do you want to do? with the media. To configure the list of options prompted for devices open &kcontrol; and navigate to Peripherals Storage Media Here you can add and remove programs from the list of devices.

The automount feature will only work if dbus, hal and udev are installed and the kernel is properly configured. To find out if they are running on your system check the Process Table in &ksysguard; for: `hald`, `dbus-deamon`, and `udevd`. &kde; does not provide any of these components. You must cheek with you distribution.

## Información relacionada

- CÓMO: configurar D-BUS y HAL para editar los ioslave de medios de KDE (un CÓMO mantenido en el wiki de &kde; por la comunidad).

- La página DBus

- HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer

## Montado

If your system does not automount &kde; is configured to mount and unmount device which the current user have permission to mount. If a device is mounted as the root partition (&ie; `/`), and you login to &kde; as a user, &kde; can not mount or unmount it without being given a higher permission. To cheek a devices mount permission see the `/etc/fstab` file.

To mount and unmount devices manually in &kde; one only has to &RMB; click the device icon in media:/ or on the desktop and select Mount or Unmount, for removable devices one can also unmount with Remove device safety. &kde; still requires the device to be setup in /etc/fstab.