Problems with Gnome and mounted Drives

-=$4$UK!=- · n00b Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 14

hello,

I have two problem with the latest version of Gnome(2.10) and drive handling.

I have many partitions, one ext 3 and the others are all vfat.
On startup they are all mounted automatically, and when I open the computer place (computer://),
i can see all vfat drives with their Windows-Name.
But I never see them in the nautilus-tree or on the desktop, does anyone else have a problem like this??

Here the fstab entry of one of the drives

vishnoo · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject:

hello,

I don't really understand your first problem (do you mean you can't access /windows/C in nautilus??)

But for your second problem maybe I can help :

I encountered a similar problem when I could only access my usb disk in root, and I corrected it through the configuration of HAL (the program which mounts the drives automatically). If you use HAL (as I think) look what i did (i already posted it on the french forum https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2483954.html#2483954)

added a user who will have access to pluggable disks :

-=$4$UK!=- · n00b Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 14

1. I can acces /windows/C with nautilus, but there isnt any drive shown in the tree, you know where the Filesystem and home directory are accesable. And the drives arent schown at the desktop too.

2. I think the problem have s.th. to do with gamin.The drives are mounted automatically by hal or volume manager, but nautilus isnt updating neither the desktop nor the nautilus tree and the computer-place, but my usb stick is accesable through /media/usb. (this problem appears after changing from fam to gamin)

thanks

sasuki

vishnoo · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 2:23 pm Post subject:

Ha, so it was not this, excuse me ^_^'
I thought it was maybe a rights problem
(ps i changed the line of the hal config file in the previous post before i saw your answer)
This time i don't know, gamin is masked so I didn't tried it....

heedless · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 86

Just for the sake of it...

After gnome has been started, open a root terminal, and try unmounting and remounting the Windows drives.
See if they get updated now on the desktop/tree.

I suspect it might have something to do with the drives being mounted on Boot and gnome not being aware of it.

-=$4$UK!=- · n00b Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 14

deosnt help. I have also tried this and a lot of other things, but it only doesnt help.

But there is a thing I have noticed:
First I have unmounted /windows/C
then i opened computer://, and C still is there
when I click on C, it should be mounted automatically or not(C is user-mountable),
but nautlius is only opening /windows C without mounting anything

Is there a way to edit the drives in computer:// or even better in the tree??

thanks

sasuki

CNaylor · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 6:59 pm Post subject:

At the beginning you mention that you have many partitions, but later reffer to drives. It's confusing me a litter, but here's how I understand how Nautillus and Gnome Volume Manager work:

1) Partitions as a hard disk will appear at there mount points in the file system, but not as separate devices. I only have one harddrive some
I'm not entirely sure how multiple drives are handled, but I suspect that they are treated as part of the file system and just show up as their
mount point.

2) Removable media and network drives should appear as separate devices.

Like I said, I'm a little confused about what you are saying, but your partitions should not be shown as separtate devices in computer://. Mount points are edited in /etc/fstab, but I don't know of anyway to edit the setup of computer://.

-=$4$UK!=- · n00b Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 14

oh sorry, i haven't payed attention to this.

in 1 I mean partition of the same hard drive (hda) in gnome, on debian and at the first when I installed gentoo they were shown on the desktop and in the tree, then they disappear. In the computer:/// dialog they are shown just like they should. (like before in debian gnome 2.

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in 2 I mean removable devices like usb sticks, which are automatically mounted by the volume manager but the dialogs arent refreshed by gamin, so it is a gamin proble, after i changed to it from fam.

sasuki

CNaylor · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:19 am Post subject:

I think I understand now, though I still don't remember different partitions on a HD ever showing up on the desktop and in computer://. Anyhow did a quick search on the forum and found this:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-344418-highlight-gamin.html

In summation there are a couple of bug reports on gamin (I'm still using fam for now):

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171201
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74285

Maybe that will help.

-=$4$UK!=- · n00b Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 14

on the gnome bugtracker stands that the bug have already been fixed,
how long do you think it will take the fix to get into gentoo??
Because I can wait, and if it wont take a long time it is no problem.

But maybe somebody knows a solution for Problem one??

thanks

sasuki