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BSOD666

Member

From: WA

Registered: 2011-10-30

Posts: 32

Cannot access external hard drive

After a day googling and searching through the forums, I somehow have not been able to find a solution for this. It seems that it does mount, however only points to a shortcut which to my knowledge I cannot do anything with. I have only been using Arch for roughly two days, so please bear with me. thanks! here is a screenshot just to see what I am talking about. http://www.mediafire.com/i/?23x6xoecy7sb5ys

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Cannot access external hard drive

/dev/disk/by-label/* is a symlink pointing to the device node - what you need to find is the mountpoint e.g /mnt/whatever, /media/whatever. The 'mount' command will help you with that.

David Batson

Member

Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: Cannot access external hard drive

If you can access it as root but not as normal user, see that this is not your problem (and solution).

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1014060