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    Kubuntu can't mount other drives?

    I have a problem with Kubuntu 7.10 unable to mount other drives beside the one it's installed on. I have a ntfs with XP installed and FAT32.
    Whenever I try to mount them I got hal-storage-fix-mount-all-options-refused uid 1000. This is a clean install of Kubuntu. When it was installed over ubuntu there was no problem.
    I found some discussion over here http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3088232.0 & here
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...al/+bug/115768 but no solution.

    thanks
    Slobodan
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    Re: Kubuntu can't mount other drives?

    I've managed to make an manual mount with :
    bobi@deus:~$ sudo mkdir /media/hda5
    bobi@deus:~$ sudo mount /dev/hda5 /media/hda5

    But is there any way Kubuntu to mount my drives automatically ?

    Slobodan
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      #3
      Re: Kubuntu can't mount other drives?

      You can add a mount line to your /etc/fstab file, but you'll need to have the drive connected at the time you boot. Here's some guidance:

      http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3084679.0

      I personally prefer the new "mount by UUID" method -- here are the last few lines of my /etc/fstab file, showing a USB thumb drive mounted at /media/NTFSTICK:

      # Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
      UUID=b311e153-6e03-4b2c-ac17-ebcac0b37ca3 none swap sw 0 0
      # Entry for /dev/sde1 :
      UUID=A8FC3435FC33FC5E /media/NTFSTICK ntfs nouser,defaults,atime,exec,force 0 2
      /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
      /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

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        Re: Kubuntu can't mount other drives?

        Thanks for the advice but those are actually 2 partitions of my hard drive not USB. I mounted as above advised only the FAT32, and I didn't unmounted.
        I hope I didn't screwed my data.

        Slobodan
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          #5
          Re: Kubuntu can't mount other drives?

          Your data should be fine, although FAT32 is not famous for reliability -- if you're sharing that with Windows you could just as easy use NTFS and the data would be more secure.

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            #6
            Re: Kubuntu can't mount other drives?

            Simple changing Mount Permission settings to Any user may enable did the trick, thank you again .
            I wonder why it isn't configured like that from the start like in Ubuntu ?

            One more question is writing to FAT32 partition from Kubuntu safe?

            Slobodan
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              Re: Kubuntu can't mount other drives?

              Safe in what sense? Linux can write natively to a FAT32 partition. If you have ntfs-3g package installed, then you can read/write to Windoze NTFS partitions.
              Windows no longer obstructs my view.
              Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
              "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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                Re: Kubuntu can't mount other drives?

                It's no more hazardous writing to FAT32 from Kubuntu that any other OS. FAT32 is an old filesystem format -- it's the 32-bit version of the original DOS FAT filesystem, as designed for 5.25 inch floppy diskettes in the early 1980s. All journalling filesystems, including NTFS, are more reliable than FAT.
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