[xubuntu-users] Mounting windows partitions with the LiveCD

[Charlie Kravetz]

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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:47:32 -0700
"Andrew Kane" <googoleyes at gmail.com> wrote:

>       Similarly, I put a second hard disk in my machine after the
> install and it didn't auto-mount nor show up in /etc/fstab. I had
> gparted installed and I used it to find the disk (it was attached at
> /dev/sdb even though it, and all my devices, are IDE) so I was able to
> mount it manually. It's kind of a drag, though, and I consider myself
> lucky that I know how to do it from old Slackware days :)
> 

I would not expect an added drive to show up in /etc/fstab, but I would
expect it to auto-mount or at least show up in Thunar. Did you
partition it NTFS or FAT?


> 
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 4:50 PM, David Collins <db.collins at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > Charlie,
> >
> > I have several partitions on my internal hard drives (including a Windows
> > NTFS partition), and did a fresh install of Hardy Xubuntu the other day and
> > it only defines the root and swap partition in /etc/fstab.  I think this is
> > the behaviour of the install since Hardy.
> >
> > The full fstab was ...
> >
> > # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> > #
> > # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> > proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> > # /dev/sda4
> > UUID=fff7b283-125f-41b1-85dc-3633ca77b0ea /               ext3
> > relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> > # /dev/sda3
> > UUID=06b60bb3-e21b-40cd-904d-b5fff90b0c55 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
> >
> > Regards,
> > David Collins
> >
> >
> > Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:20:31 -0600
> > From: Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>
> > Subject: [xubuntu-users] Mounting windows partitions with the LiveCD
> > To: Xubuntu Help and User Discussions <xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Message-ID: <20080717222031.c43280b1.cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> >
> > I am triaging a bug report about the LiveCD not auto-mounting windows
> > partitions on the internal hard drive.
> >
> > The question I need to find an answer to is whether or not these should
> > auto mount. Since I don't run anything with windows anymore, I can't
> > even test this. Could someone help with this?
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
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