mounting of partitions

varaahan · 2008-06-21 15:42:12

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

#/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
UUID=10076b9f-1da4-4220-8b08-9796f8017aea swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=b86c1325-eacf-4681-abad-e22370433b6d / ext3 defaults 0 1

When I execute "Alt+F2 and /" and browse to media folder in konqueror my partitions sda6 to 12 are not displayed but my windows partition hda5 is displayed.
When I start konqueror and click on storage media , all the partitions are displayed.
Why can't I browse these folders through the run command (Alt+F2) ?

My konsole gives the following:

[sridhar@arch media]$ ls
GOWTHAM cdrom disk disk-1 dvd

Here again all the partitions are not displayed !

Thunar and Rox also don't show these partitions !

Last edited by varaahan (2008-06-21 15:44:13)

sniffles · 2008-06-21 17:08:40

I'm not familiar with KDE and what "ALT+F2 and /" is supposed to do exactly, etc. Could you please post the output of:

mount

and of

fdisk -l /dev/sda

?

Last edited by sniffles (2008-06-21 17:11:11)

lucke · 2008-06-21 17:23:50

Why don't you just put them in fstab, instead of relying on HAL?

varaahan · 2008-06-22 15:06:58

lucke wrote:

Why don't you just put them in fstab, instead of relying on HAL?

That's not the point.
When "media:/" command shows all the partitions, why not the "ls /media/ " command ?
Does it mean that :media:/" relies on HAL while the file browser relies on fstab ?
Why not the file browser use HAL for mounting the partitions ?

varaahan · 2008-06-23 00:35:09

sniffles wrote:

I'm not familiar with KDE and what "ALT+F2 and /" is supposed to do exactly, etc. Could you please post the output of:
mount
and of
fdisk -l /dev/sda
?

bash-3.2# mount
/dev/sdb5 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev type ramfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
bash-3.2# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77622 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x90779077

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 36986 18640912+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 36987 77621 20480040 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 36987 77621 20480008+ b W95 FAT32
bash-3.2#

Of course this is my first IDE hdd.
The second one is a SATA drive.
bash-3.2# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x63b963b9

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 243 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 244 19457 154336455 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 * 244 2675 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 2676 5107 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 5108 7539 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 7540 9971 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb9 9972 12403 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb10 12404 14835 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb11 14836 17267 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb12 17268 19457 17591143+ 83 Linux
bash-3.2#

Last edited by varaahan (2008-06-23 00:37:06)

carlocci · 2008-06-23 00:39:25

varaahan wrote:

lucke wrote:
Why don't you just put them in fstab, instead of relying on HAL?
That's not the point.
When "media:/" command shows all the partitions, why not the "ls /media/ " command ?
Does it mean that :media:/" relies on HAL while the file browser relies on fstab ?
Why not the file browser use HAL for mounting the partitions ?

media:/ is an abstraction showing all the partitions you can access and relies on HAL:
for example you may see a partition there, but it might not be mounted (there is a sort of yellow spark for mounted partitions) and when you click it, kde will mount the partition for you.
/media/ is a directory where you see directories where some partitions might be mounted

Basu · 2008-06-23 01:51:01

While we're on the topic of mountpoints, if I set fstab auto-mountpoints for USB sticks and DVDs, will that conflict with the automount HAL (or is it volman) provides for Thunar and XFCE? And why would a USB stick say it's busy when I try to unmount it, even if I haven't moved anything to or from it? Is there a way to force unmount in that case?

Last edited by Basu (2008-06-23 02:06:08)

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#1 2008-06-21 15:42:12

mounting of partitions

#2 2008-06-21 17:08:40

Re: mounting of partitions

#3 2008-06-21 17:23:50

Re: mounting of partitions

#4 2008-06-22 15:06:58

Re: mounting of partitions

#5 2008-06-23 00:35:09

Re: mounting of partitions

#6 2008-06-23 00:39:25

Re: mounting of partitions

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