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tedbell

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Registered: 2012-08-04

Posts: 167

[SOLVED]Drive mounting problems.

Just starting using this distro. After a series of headaches I got it working okay so far. I am using XFCE for my DE. I was using #! before and I used to have my cd/dvd roms, ntfs partitions, and usb drives automounted and ready to use showing up in the side pane of Thunar.

Now I can get the NTFS partitions to show up but when I use psydm (as I alwas used in #!) to mount and set parameters I won't let me change from read only to read and write. Even if I change permissions in root.

The CD/DVD rom icon appears but when I click it it asks me for my password (I have gksu installed) then I get this error:

Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sr0: Command-line `mount "/media/cdrom0"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so 

And I get nothing when I insert a USB stick.

Is there any particular package I am missing? My fstab is as follows:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>	<dir>	<type>	<options>	<dump>	<pass>
tmpfs      /tmp           tmpfs    nodev,nosuid                            0  0  

# UUID=17f60ebb-4d77-417f-b0b0-8d2396838085
/dev/sda1  /              ext4     rw,relatime,data=ordered                0  1  

# UUID=bad53547-f848-41f8-ba70-1e7b8bf77d41
/dev/sda2  /home          ext4     rw,relatime,data=ordered                0  2  

/dev/sda3  /media/sda4    ntfs     nls=iso8859-1,users,umask=000,uid=1000  0  0  
/dev/sda4  /media/sda3    ntfs     nls=iso8859-1,users,umask=000,uid=1000  0  0  

/dev/sr0   /media/cdrom0  iso9660  ro,user,noauto,unhide                  0  0  

All my drives except the linux partitions mounted automaticlly in /media in #!

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks

Last edited by tedbell (2012-08-04 21:00:21)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,646

Re: [SOLVED]Drive mounting problems.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ntfs

tedbell

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Registered: 2012-08-04

Posts: 167

Re: [SOLVED]Drive mounting problems.

thanks! that clears up my usb and hard drive problem.

Now the cdrom is still asking for a password and giving me the error.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: [SOLVED]Drive mounting problems.

 In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so 

does "dmesg | tail" tell you anything useful?

(edit) try using "auto" for the filesystem type:

/dev/sr0   /media/cdrom0  auto  ro,user,noauto,unhide                  0  0  

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-08-04 20:08:15)

tedbell

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Registered: 2012-08-04

Posts: 167

Re: [SOLVED]Drive mounting problems.

worked like a charm thanks!!!

2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED]Drive mounting problems.

You're welcome, and thanks for marking it [solved].

And welcome to Arch.