Dolphin is not restricted to navigating your local file system, it is also capable of navigating Removable Storage Media. In addition to this, Dolphin also has the ability to mount and un-mount storage media on the system.

When in the kde directory for storage Media; system:/media/ the available Storage Media are shown. Typically this is the hard drive(s)/partitions and Floppy Drive. Each device is named according to their name or device type. The root Partition/Drive is named / while the home partition is named /home, the Floppy Disk is named Floppy Drive.

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If the user has inserted Removable Storage media e.g. a Flash USB disk, then this will be shown. This also applies to CDROM/DVDROM drives. As with the Hard Disks these devices will also be named accordingly, either by there drive name, device type or in the case of CDROMS/DVDROMS by their disk name.

Each device found in this location has the appropriate icon for their device type. However this only applies if the hal daemon is running.

Dolphin can mount devices found in the System:/media/ directory via a number of ways. Firstly right clicking on the device and via the menu Actions>Mount. The second way is by clicking on the device icon.

To un-mount a device right click on the device and via the menu; Actions>Safely Remove. This will then un-mount the device.

To open a mounted device there are two methods. Firstly clicking the mounted device will change into that directory. The second method is by right clicking the device and via the menu Actions>Open Device.