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majician
April 26th, 2008, 05:48 AM
noticed this not just with ubuntu but with mandriva too.
heres the scenario. I use Hd1 for my linux, Hd2 is my WinXP partition, and Hd3 is a usb 500 gig. I usually get on GNOME first then install XFCe 4.4.2

everytime i go on xfce i notice i only see my usb 500 gig hd mounted while my Hd2 (winxp) never gets mounted. It mounts in Gnome though

This is for both distro's so i know it must be a Xfce problem..

Any ideas? Thanks

p_quarles
April 26th, 2008, 06:15 AM
Are you sure that the NTFS drive isn't mounted, or is it simply not showing up on the desktop? Anyway, if you could provide the output of these terminal commands, some light may be shed on the issue:

dh -h

cat /etc/fstab

sudo fdisk -l

majician
April 26th, 2008, 06:22 AM
dh -h
bash: dh: command not found


cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=35a349b7-7034-45b3-8b85-36b43619f869 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=13e65387-0294-44e3-a9dd-62d55c41c57b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0


sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe554e554

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7679 61681536 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 7680 38913 250887105 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 7680 38913 250887073+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000146e4

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 19271 154794276 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 19272 20023 6040440 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 19272 20023 6040408+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00090dc8

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS




Ok your right i think it mounted it, but how do i show it? thanks for the help

majician
April 26th, 2008, 06:28 AM
i mean it already detects it, i just gotta mount it

majician
April 26th, 2008, 06:31 AM
Got it, i see i had to use sudo fdisk -l to list my avail hd's

then whatever i wanna mount

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs

p_quarles
April 26th, 2008, 06:39 AM
Yeah, that'll work. You can also add a line to /etc/fstab to make the volume mount automatically.

Sorry about the typo: that should have been "df -h", not "dh -h".