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daankata

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Registered: 2017-05-21

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Filesystem, boot and home showing as devices

Hello!
Yesterday I installed Arch Linux and I am loving it. But when the installation finished I left the chroot environment by typing exit but then I forgot the last step which was to manually unmount all the partitions with

umount -R /mnt

Then I restarted the machine and everything was working fine, but I noticed that my desktop has 2 filesystem icons and 2 home icons. When I checked the file manager under the "Devices" section I also had the "Filesystem, boot and home" partitions mounted. So my question is can I unmount these partitions now without any consequences? I could hide them from the desktop settings and the file manager settings but are these partitions supposed to show like that?
https://image.ibb.co/ikmNNa/Screenshot_ … 9_00_1.png
Thank you!:)

Last edited by daankata (2017-05-21 18:59:00)

Slithery

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Re: Filesystem, boot and home showing as devices

Welcome to the forums daankata.

This has nothing to do with forgetting to unmount the partitions - this will have been done automatically when you rebooted.
The only reason they are showing are because they are on separate partitions, just hide them using application settings if you don't wish to see them.

Last edited by Slithery (2017-05-21 18:41:02)

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Re: Filesystem, boot and home showing as devices

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tom.ty89

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Re: Filesystem, boot and home showing as devices

You should not unmount /boot and mostly could not unmount /home and certainly not /, if that's what you/it mean(s). What's the mountpoint of "File System" (as oppose to Filesystem) btw?

AFAIK it should not list them like this though. Either it is some recent bug, or maybe there's something wrong in your fstab. Also what exactly is the DE/file manager?

daankata

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Re: Filesystem, boot and home showing as devices

You should not unmount /boot and mostly could not unmount /home and certainly not /, if that's what you/it mean(s). What's the mountpoint of "File System" (as oppose to Filesystem) btw?

AFAIK it should not list them like this though. Either it is some recent bug, or maybe there's something wrong in your fstab. Also what exactly is the DE/file manager?

Thank you for your reply! I am using XFCE so the default file manager is Thunar.

tom.ty89

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Re: Filesystem, boot and home showing as devices

Thunar lists my boot partition as well. However that does not happen on nautilus / nemo / caja.

Not really familiar with xfce/thunar, so not sure if it has always been like this, or if it is a recent change/bug.

daankata

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Re: Filesystem, boot and home showing as devices

You should not unmount /boot and mostly could not unmount /home and certainly not /, if that's what you/it mean(s). What's the mountpoint of "File System" (as oppose to Filesystem) btw?

AFAIK it should not list them like this though. Either it is some recent bug, or maybe there's something wrong in your fstab. Also what exactly is the DE/file manager?

And for the mountpoints of the system this is the output of the lsblk -l

NAME MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda     8:0    0 298.1G       0    disk
sda1   8:1    0   512M        0    part  /boot
sda2   8:2    0    20G         0    part  /
sda3   8:3    0     4G          0    part  [SWAP]
sda4   8:4    0 273.6G       0    part  /home
sr0   11:0    1  1024M        0    rom

tom.ty89

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Re: Filesystem, boot and home showing as devices

Well, by mountpoint I meant the "Mounted in" in the bubble when you point your cursor to "File System" (instead of "Filesystem").

daankata

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Re: Filesystem, boot and home showing as devices

Well, by mountpoint I meant the "Mounted in" in the bubble when you point your cursor to "File System" (instead of "Filesystem").

The "File System" on the desktop is just a shortcut to the "/" directory so it doesn't show anything. Just "Size: 4.1kB"
Thank you!

tom.ty89

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Re: Filesystem, boot and home showing as devices

I am not even sure what "shortcut" means in such context. Also under DEVICES there are "Filesystem root" and "File System".

daankata

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Re: Filesystem, boot and home showing as devices

I am not even sure what "shortcut" means in such context. Also under DEVICES there are "Filesystem root" and "File System".

Yes there are and when I access the "Filesystem root" device it redirects me to the "File System" device which is the main "/" directory. I guess this is normal in XFCE. I hid them using the settings menu in the Thunar and in the desktop settings, by unchecking the "Other devices" section. I'm still not sure are they suppose to show like that. Thanks to everyone for the replies and the help!