some issues related to filesystems and mounting.

[rupeshforu3]

Hi I am Rupesh from India and I brought a new system with AMD Ryzen zen3 5500GT APU and Asus prime b450 motherboard. I have installed gentoo linux two months ago and it is working fine except there are some issues related to filesystem.

Two months back I tried to install Gentoo Linux from Arch Linux and so I have followed the following steps.

1) I created a directory called /mnt/gentoo
2) I created a directory /mnt/gentoo/efi
3) I downloaded stage 3 tarball and extracted it to the directory created in step 1.
4) I have installed some packages like kernel etc.,

I think that at that time I have created a new xfs file system and mounted to /mnt/gentoo but I am not sure.

After some days I have downloaded gentoo linux live iso file and copied to USB pen drive. I installed Gentoo Linux through booting into live USB. After that I installed kernel desktop environments etc.,.

At present when I boot into my Arch Linux I am able to see a lot of directories and files in the /mnt/gentoo. I can't understand whether these files and directories are related to the current gentoo linux or not.

If I delete them I think that my gentoo linux will be erased.

Is there any way in Linux to view the partition name to which the suspected file belongs to.

The above is one problem and the other is as below.

I have installed gentoo linux about two months back and installed various desktop environments like cinnamon mate etc.,.

Upto now I have updated my system three to four times successfully.

In my SSD drive I have three windows partitions and one of them is exFAT and previously in the gui file manager like nemo when I click the drive icon it was mounted into my root file system. At present when I click on drive icon I am getting error as follows

Unable to mount not authorised to perform operation.

I tried to mount the exFAT file system using mount command and succeeded.

I mean I am able to mount through command line but I can't mount directly through gui file manager.

Kindly try to suggest how to mount exFAT file system directly through gui file manager and also suggest whether I can delete safely /mnt/gentoo directory which is present in Arch Linux Operating System.
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Regards,
Rupesh.

[grknight]

[rupeshforu3]

Hi in Arch Linux I issued the command specified by you and found that those files are present in Arch Linux root partition and so I have deleted those files. I have restarted my system and booted successfully into gentoo linux.

Now the second problem is why I can't mount exFAT file system directly through gui file manager like nemo.

Can you try to suggest solution for the second problem.
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Regards,
Rupesh.

[pingtoo]

rupeshforu3,

I suggest you show the symptom (error messages, etc ...) and what command(s) used as part of post. Simply said something not working is unlikely get answer. at best we can only guess.

[rupeshforu3]

I think that you have not read my post so you are asking that I have not provided anything.

I am explaining again.

I have an exFAT partition and I want to mount it through gui file manager like nemo or thunar.

I can't mount it through gui file manager but I am getting error as "operation not permitted".

But I am able to mount through command line with the following command.

$> mount /dev/nvmen1p19 /mnt

I am asking why I can't mount directly through gui file manager.
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Regards,
Rupesh.

[CaptainBlood]