hello anybody out there to sort out my problem, please note i am a novice
hello anybody out there to sort out my problem, please note i am a novice
Hi all i did was copy the command from previous poster... this was the result, i have not "changed" it ... because i don't know how...if you can walk me thru any steps i would be grateful... but it will have to wait till morning as its late here in uk and my eyes are drooping
i am very surprised tho that usb hard drives don't auto mount in ubuntu...not wishing to upset anyone here....my external hard drive was auto detected in pclinuxos
mark
I guess it's try what they say.. the OS is only as good as the defaults.
Anywhozer, try pressing ALT + F2 to bring up the "run" dialog box then paste this into it and click/press enter "sudo gedit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi" (without the quotes, also be sure to click "Run in terminal" checkbox).
That will open the text editor with root permissions so you can modify that system policy for hal.
ok did as you advised
repeated ealier command after restarting pc this is what i get
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<!--
Some examples how to use hal fdi files for system preferences
You can either uncomment the examples here or put them in a seperate .fdi
file.
-->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<!--
The following shows how to hint gnome-volume-manager and other programs
that honor the storage.automount_enabled_hint to not mount non-removable
media.
-->
<device>
<match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
<match key="storage.removable" bool="true">
<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
tried the external hard drive..... still will not mount... tho remains recognisable in the places tab ie knows its an 80 gig
my usb memory stick opens up fine, so it has to be something re ntfs recognition, have i missed anything? is there a command line question i can ask of the system to see what is missing?
Hi,
I just bought a 1TB external USB drive which came formatted with NTFS. I reformatted this to ext3 & modified my fstab to attempt to automount at boot:
/dev/sdb1 /home/disk ext3 defaults,auto,rw 0 0
However fdisk -l gives:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS
Still says NTFS, although gparted says ext3. I couldn't get this drive to automount at boot, so I tried installing ntfs-config and enabling write support. Drive now auto-mounts no problem. Why should this be when the drive is ext3?
thanks for the help on how to automount ntfs partitions,
it worked for a while and it even mounted my drives on the desktop,
now it still automounts if i click on places but my icons does not apeer on the desktop like it use to,
any ideas why my hdd icons have gone missing, the same applys to my usb drives
please help
Joeb454, thanks for the post.
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