Thanks for the new Porteus release !
I have a PC with 3 partitions with Porteus XFCE 3.1 I just frugally installed to sda1. The only partition it mounts visibly is the third one, a data partition, sda6, and when trying to mount the others I get a message like this:
mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /mnt/sda1 busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is already mounted on /mnt/sda1
However, I can access the other two through the file system /mnt/ which shows all 3, that's to say sda1, sda5 and sda6. Is there a way to access them from the desktop icons without having to go to /mnt ?
Mounting partitions (SOLVED)
- Sagittarius
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Mounting partitions (SOLVED)
Last edited by Sagittarius on 16 Dec 2014, 14:24, edited 1 time in total.
- brokenman
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Re: Mounting partitions
Please show me the output of: cat /etc/fstab
To have them show in thunar (and therefore on the desktop) the string comment=x-gvfs-show should be in the fstab for these partitions. For example:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs-3g comment=x-gvfs-show,user,noatime,nodiratime,suid,dev,exec,async 0 0
If this string is not there then I can give you a small rc script or something that you can call from rc.local at each boot. Another option is to navigate to /mnt in thunar and just drag and drop the sda5 folder into the left pane under places.
To have them show in thunar (and therefore on the desktop) the string comment=x-gvfs-show should be in the fstab for these partitions. For example:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs-3g comment=x-gvfs-show,user,noatime,nodiratime,suid,dev,exec,async 0 0
If this string is not there then I can give you a small rc script or something that you can call from rc.local at each boot. Another option is to navigate to /mnt in thunar and just drag and drop the sda5 folder into the left pane under places.
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Re: Mounting partitions (solved)
brokenman wrote:Please show me the output of: cat /etc/fstab
Another option is to navigate to /mnt in thunar and just drag and drop the sda5 folder into the left pane under places.
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root@porteus:~# cat /etc/fstab
# Do not edit this file as fstab is recreated automatically during every boot.
# Please use /etc/rc.d/rc.local or sysvinit scripts if you want to mount/unmount
# drive, filesystem or network share.
# System mounts:
aufs / aufs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
# Device partitions:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noatime,nodiratime,suid,dev,exec,async,umask=0,check=s,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 vfat noatime,nodiratime,suid,dev,exec,async,umask=0,check=s,utf8 0 0
# Swap partitions:
/dev/sda6 /mnt/sda6 vfat comment=x-gvfs-show,user,noatime,nodiratime,suid,dev,exec,async,umask=0,check=s,utf8 0 0
# Hotplugged devices:
root@porteus:~#
Edit: curiously, now I've rebooted, the desktop icons for sda1 and sda5 have disappeared, maybe because I created a save.dat. Anyhow, the drag and drop is fine.
2nd edit: I rebooted again and they are back (I think I unticked save session) and I can now access the partitions from the desktop. I think I can now put solved on this post :-) Thanks