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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

New Arch user, some help with mounting and burning please :)

Hey folks, coming from Ubuntu, just installed Arch & really loving this learning experience!

1. I have some partitions mounted in /media, here is my fstab:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
## /dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0   vfat   user,noauto   0      0
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
[b]/dev/sda3 /mnt/gutsyhome ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4 /mnt/video ext3 defaults 0 1[/b]
/dev/sdb1 / ext3 defaults 0 1
[b]/dev/sdb2 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb3 /mnt/newpics ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb5 /mnt/mp3 ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb6 /mnt/personal ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/guitar ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb8 /mnt/other ext3 defaults 0 1

Now in nautilus, in My Computer (computer:///), I only have:
-CD-ROM
-CD-ROM 2
-DVD
-Filesystem
-Network

Why are newpics, mp3, personal, etc. not showing in My Computer in nautilus? I am so used to having them there, I really want to get them showing there again please!

TIA for any help

P.S. I can go into /mnt and get into those mounted partitions just fine and read-write as desired.

Last edited by colbert (2007-12-17 05:56:10)

marb

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Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 6

Re: New Arch user, some help with mounting and burning please :)

Do you have gnome-volume-manager installed? This should solve your problem.

colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: New Arch user, some help with mounting and burning please :)

Do you have gnome-volume-manager installed? This should solve your problem.

Yes, I do and I just ran it, seems to be in the background but nautilus does not change

elliott

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Registered: 2006-03-07

Posts: 296

Re: New Arch user, some help with mounting and burning please :)

Is the HAL daemon running and in your rc.conf?

colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: New Arch user, some help with mounting and burning please :)

Is the HAL daemon running and in your rc.conf?

No, adding this to daemons in rc.conf would fix it?

Also, I just encountered this:

bobby:~/Desktop/blueman-0.3$ sudo pacman -S openoffice
sudo: timestamp too far in the future: Dec 17 07:03:40 2007

after installing ntpdate and doing sudo /etc/rc.d/ntpdate restart. I can't use sudo now, I keep having to su in.

Last edited by colbert (2007-12-17 07:21:24)

elliott

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Registered: 2006-03-07

Posts: 296

Re: New Arch user, some help with mounting and burning please :)

Adding it and restarting will run HAL. To run it manually run this as root:

/etc/rc.d/hal start

This should fix sudo after a time change:

sudo -v

EDIT: Make that:

sudo -K

My memory sucks...

Last edited by elliott (2007-12-17 07:30:16)

colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: New Arch user, some help with mounting and burning please :)

Thank you elliot, the sudo -K worked

Did I make the mount directories in the right place? /mnt? Or should I put them in /media ??

elliott

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Registered: 2006-03-07

Posts: 296

Re: New Arch user, some help with mounting and burning please :)

You could try that, it couldn't make things worse. I have never done what you are trying to do, I just knew gnome-volume-manager likes to have HAL running.

colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: New Arch user, some help with mounting and burning please :)

elliot thank you I have rebooted and they're all showing up, it's as it was before! However I have an error with my dvd drive now:

That's when I just put in a DVD. I can see that is mounted in nautilus, it changed the icon to a DVD and displayed the disc's name, I just can't access it. I have already added my user to the "optical" group before.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: New Arch user, some help with mounting and burning please :)

If you're using hal make sure to comment out all the CD/DVD entries in fstab.  Also, you need to make sure that your user is in all the necessary groups: optical, floppy, storage (whichever are appropriate in your case).

colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: New Arch user, some help with mounting and burning please :)

If you're using hal make sure to comment out all the CD/DVD entries in fstab.  Also, you need to make sure that your user is in all the necessary groups: optical, floppy, storage (whichever are appropriate in your case).

Thank you fwojciec! That worked great. Now the cd and dvd drives mount and unmount just fine