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Joenas

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Registered: 2009-01-11

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Cant see second harddrive (ntfs) [SOLVED]

Hi,
I am new to Archlinux, I moved from Ubuntu with Gnome couple of days ago. I set up my arch pretty successfully -  I have an XFCE running, with all the software I had on Ubuntu (made me love pacman). I think my problem has an easy solving, but I didnt manage it myself so I am asking.
I put Arch on my sda (had it autoprepare) and I left sdb with no change (only photos and vids storage). But I cant just access (see) the sdb disk.
when I run  fdsik -l I get

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0f610f60

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1           5       40162   83  Linux
/dev/sda2               6         136     1052257+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3             137        1666    12289725   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            1667        4865    25695967+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0fae0fad

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        4865    39078081    7  HPFS/NTFS

How can I make sdb visible in XFCE? Thanks for your help. Joenas

Last edited by Joenas (2009-01-12 17:38:38)

InfernalH

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From: Lithuania/Klaipeda-Vilnius

Registered: 2005-02-08

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Re: Cant see second harddrive (ntfs) [SOLVED]

Hi, welcome to Arch!

You have NTFS disc, so you need to install ntfs-3g package and add line

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/data ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
# just example

to /etc/fstab. For further HOWTO see http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support

Joenas

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Registered: 2009-01-11

Posts: 14

Re: Cant see second harddrive (ntfs) [SOLVED]

I followed the wiki page, ended installing ntfs-config...ran it and it showed that sdb1 was successfully mounted, but I have no clue where to look for it in File Manager. ntfs-config says it is supposed to be in /mnt/data, but my /mnt folder is empty...?

Joenas

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Registered: 2009-01-11

Posts: 14

Re: Cant see second harddrive (ntfs) [SOLVED]

all I had to do, was to create the damn /mnt/data folder. Now the disk mounts there automatically. Everythings fine. You can add the [SOLVED] tag here...
thx InfernalH
Joenas

InfernalH

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Re: Cant see second harddrive (ntfs) [SOLVED]

Happy to hear you solved it ;-)

You can add [solved] to post title by yourself by editing first post