You are not logged in.

#1 2007-09-09 13:33:44

xPlozion
Member
From: Newark, DE, USA
Registered: 2007-03-16
Posts: 16
Website

Single USB HDD shows up twice?

I've got an external USB hard drive, but for some reason, it shows up twice on the desktop and places, which does not look pleasant, as they point to the same place.  I'm using Gnome.  Also, on a side note, I noticed that my iPod will show up under Places if I open nautilus, but it doesn't automount anymore.  HAL is running, but I don't know why it's doing this...

Here's my /etc/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/dvd              /mnt/dvd     udf         ro,user,noauto,unhide 0    0
/dev/fd0              /mnt/fd0     vfat        user,noauto         0      0
/dev/sda1             /boot        ext2        defaults            0      1
/dev/sda2             swap         swap        defaults            0      0
/dev/sda3             /            ext3        defaults            0      1
/dev/sda4             /home        ext3        defaults            0      1
/dev/disk/by-uuid/f5a72fe9-54e0-402c-a3af-efa1486dfbf3             /private     ext3        noauto,user,rw,suid,dev,exec,async   1       0

The reason I'm mounting by UUID is because if I have my iPod still plugged in while rebooting, it'll mess up the order and the hard drive will be hdc1 as opposed to hdb1.

Thanks in advance

Offline

#2 2007-09-10 21:01:53

kagerato
Member
Registered: 2007-09-10
Posts: 45
Website

Re: Single USB HDD shows up twice?

1.) Check your kernel messages ( dmesg ).  Is it being identified as two devices?  (I doubt it; so I'll move on ...)

2.) "mount" shouldn't allow you to have a single filesystem accessible at two different mountpoints.  However, I'd check /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab anyway.

3.) This sounds the most relevant to your case: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5519?pagenum=2 .  Seems like a udev malfunction (or, possibly, the way Gnome reads information about the devices through HAL).   There are several workarounds listed there, but the solution by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) is to write some udev rules.  He posted several, the first of which was broken.

You might also want to look at this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL

Offline

#3 2007-09-10 22:41:54

samoturk
Member
From: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Registered: 2007-02-12
Posts: 86

Re: Single USB HDD shows up twice?

@kagerato
Your first option is also possible. Some Philips mp3 players can transfer files as mass storage device or via MTP mode.

Last edited by samoturk (2007-09-10 22:46:48)

Offline

Board footer

Powered by FluxBB