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So I reinstalled Arch yesterday, and am having the same problems I was having with my last install. Hal, ConsoleKit (and PolicyKit) all seem like they're more trouble than they're worth, so I'd like to know if I can remove them safely. My problem with that is using my external hard drive and CD drive. I haven't tried the CD drive yet but when I disable Hal and have the external drive in my fstab, it doesn't want to load. I've tried both the UUID that blkid gave me and using /dev/sdc1, but both times the ntfs-3g driver wouldn't mount it. This is the line in my fstab:
UUID=55D123D9E79ABF54 /media/external ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0I'm not even sure if that's right (I'm trying to mount it with user read/write). Like I said, ntfs-3g always spits out an error about that UUID not existing. My CD drive has just been uncommented in the fstab, but I have yet to try it.
Thanks.
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So - why don't you try to mount it 'manually' (as root):
mkdir /media/external; chmod a+rwx /media/external
mount -t ntfs-3g -o umask=000 /dev/sdc1 /media/external
and let us know whether or not that works ...
Last edited by perbh (2009-03-31 18:18:25)
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Thanks perbh, that works. I'm not sure how to translate that into an fstab line though...
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First off - you have to make sure that the mount-point exists and do not rely on it being generated by policy-kit/hal/whatever. My advice would be to do it as /mnt/usb or something like that. Also, make sure (in fstab) that '/' is allready mounted (ie place the following line _after_ the one that mounts the root filesystem
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb ntfs-3g defaults,users,umask=000 0 0
My personal preference in this case is to use "defaults,users,umask=000,noauto" as options, and mount it as:
mount /mnt/usb
- or at worst:
sudo mount /mnt/usb
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