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LinuxLover471

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[SOLVED] Unmounted volumes not appearing in thunar, XFCE.

Hi, I installed arch linux today and installed it without effort, thanks to the wiki.
But when I booted into the system, I saw that when I opened thunar, it did not show the unmounted partitions at there, I am used to clicking on them from there and typing my password to mount them.
I checked on the wiki for this but can't seem to find it.

Thanks,
LL

Last edited by LinuxLover471 (2025-08-05 03:37:55)

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mpan

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Re: [SOLVED] Unmounted volumes not appearing in thunar, XFCE.

Hello,

See if in Thunar preferences⁽ in “Advanced” tab the “Volume management” checkbox in the bottom is marked.

If the above doesn’t help, check the status of “gvfs-daemon.service” and “gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service” user services:

systemctl --user status gvfs-daemon.service
systemctl --user status gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service

If either of them isn’t running or reported any errors, tell us what the errors are.

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LinuxLover471

Member

From: Asia, India

Registered: 2025-02-23

Posts: 172

Re: [SOLVED] Unmounted volumes not appearing in thunar, XFCE.

Hello,

See if in Thunar preferences⁽ in “Advanced” tab the “Volume management” checkbox in the bottom is marked.

If the above doesn’t help, check the status of “gvfs-daemon.service” and “gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service” user services:

systemctl --user status gvfs-daemon.service
systemctl --user status gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service

If either of them isn’t running or reported any errors, tell us what the errors are.

Thanks, it turns out gvfs was not installed so I installed it with

sudo pacman -S gvfs

and a reboot fixed the issue somewhat, but some partitions of /dev/sda did not appear, which is my drive on which the bootloader is installed and arch and windows is installed. I did not see the windows drive at there but all the other drives are present.

Thanks,
LL

Last edited by LinuxLover471 (2025-02-23 15:04:40)

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mpan

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Re: [SOLVED] Unmounted volumes not appearing in thunar, XFCE.

What’s the output of this command?

lsblk -f /dev/sdb

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