Mount hdd [SOLVED]

Tanguy Eric eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr
Sun Feb 4 17:40:35 UTC 2007


Le dimanche 04 février 2007 à 20:53 +1030, Tim a écrit :
> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 10:18 +0100, Tanguy Eric wrote:
> > i would like to see a FAT32 partition mounted by /etc/fstab as a hdd
> > device in "Computer". I believe it's possible but i can't find how to
> > do this.
> 
> Your prior fstab example should have mounted the hard drive, but perhaps
> there was a problem with making the mount point in /media (that's where
> one of the auto-mounters does its tricks).  Perhaps using /mnt might
> actually mount it.
> 
> I don't really know if the problem was that it wouldn't mount, or that
> you couldn't see the mounted drive in the list of drives Nautilus shows
> when you're browsing computer:/// in it.
> 
> If you want to see it in computer:/// rather than in /mnt, you might
> have to mount it with some fstab options that describe it as a removable
> drive.  That might involve playing with some SELinux parameters.  It's
> ages since I did that, and I don't recall exactly how I did it.
> 
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> 
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> 

I installed hal-gnome package and use hal-gnome to see parameters of my
hdd. I saw that for this hdd i had a boolean key volume.ignore set to
true so i used hal-set-property to set it to false. I umount and mount
the disk and all is fine !!

Eric 




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