happylurk
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Re: External drive in PCLOS
The only entry you should have regarding the USB Filesystem is a line like this one in fstab
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nixie21
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Harrington Park, NJ | When I do not have the line I can not get it to mount (prob. my inexperience with Linux)
I will remove the line and make sure the one you have is there. Can I change the noauto to auto? |
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happylurk
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| Actually why don't you post the entire contents of your fstab before making any changes?
From what I could see of the line you posted, it was referring to /dev/sda1 which should be the / partition of your primary HD.
That entry in theory should have nothing to do with the mounting and unmounting of a USB drive.
just for comparison's sake, here's the contents of my own fstab
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antiserious
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I'm not in PCLOS right now, but in UbuntuStudio I have no entries at all relating to usb's (as you mentioned in an earlier post), and they mount just fine. I can't recall seeing any in the 5 working distros I have, but I haven't actively looked for them either. Usb's have always just worked, but PCLOS does do a few things a little differently - not always better, just differently.
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nixie21
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| thanks,
here is my fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
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/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda1 /media/SimpleDrive ntfs-3g defaults,user,exec,auto,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,user,exec,auto,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_d ntfs-3g defaults,user,exec,auto,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,exec,rw,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 |
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nixie21
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edit:
May 7th, @08:44PM
| I commented out the Simpledrive line and rebooted. It is mounted and I can access it BUT can not use virtualbox (my virtual XP is on that drive) I get an error below.
Also will it auto mount if I have the drive off at boot and then turn it on?
Thanks so much!
Could not load the settings file '/media/SimpleDrive/Windows XP Home Edition/VM-Win-XP/VM-Win-XP.xml' (VERR_OPEN_FAILED).
FATAL ERROR: An exception occurred! Type:RuntimeException, Message:The primary document entity could not be opened. Id=/media/SimpleDrive/Windows XP Home Edition/VM-Win-XP/VM-Win-XP.xml
Location: '', line 0, column 0.
Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Machine
Interface:
IMachine {31f7169f-14da-4c55-8cb6-a3665186e35e}
[nixie21@new-host media]$ ll
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 20 23:28 SimpleDrive/
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Feb 18 23:09 SimpleDrive-1/
[nixie21@new-host media]$
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