At the moment I am using Kubuntu 24.04.1 with btrfs and EFI boot after an unsuccessful attempt to upgrade to 24.10 (detailed in other posts). My biggest problem at this point is that my internal hard drive does not appear in the Dolphin's list on the left. My external HD does when I plug it in, but not my internal one. I installed the same OS plus 24.10 on Virtual Machine Manager, and the virtual hard disk doesn't show up on Dolphin in either case. Is this normal? If so, how can I get it to appear so I can access my btrfs partition visibly? If it is not normal, what can I do to make it appear? I'm willing to re-install if necessary. But it's very frustrating and quite limiting not to be able to copy my saved @ and @home folders from my external HD. Please help; I've scoured the internet but can't find anything which addresses my problem.
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Last edited by Snowhog; Nov 13, 2024, 01:00 PM. -
Not 100% sure - I am away from the house- but did you add any sub volumes to the btrfs file system? These are what would be mounted, and what dolphin would be showing
Not sure if you'd want stuff mounted when doing btrfs sends or anything like that, but again I'm probably wrong. -
Regards, John LittleComment
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I've just mounted my /dev/sda1 to /mnt and used vdir to see its contents, which are, in this order, @, @home, @swap. The last subv was a result of my previous manual partition to override Kubuntu 24.10 and re-install 24.04.1. I don't know how it got there, I still don't have the internal HD listed in Dolphin, however.Comment
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I ran fdisk -l and got this information:
Disk model: ST3500413AS
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 75452B4A-61CF-46C0-AE9D-753FC9217C9E
Device Start End Sectors SizeType
/dev/sda1 2048 976562175 976560128 465,7G BIOS boot
/dev/sda2 976562176 976771071 208896 102M EFI System
/dev/sda3 976771072 976773134 2063 1M Linux swap
Does this look OK?Comment
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It's been a while since I left my system in the "stock" configuration but...Originally posted by oldgeek View Post
Usually, sda1 in this case, is mounted as / and /home and not elsewhere unless you add an entry in fstab for the whole file system and not just the subvolumes. It should show up in Dolphin as something like "100GB Internal Drive (sda1)".
You're not seeing that?
If you give the file system a label, it should show under Devices with the label.
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No, I'm not seeing that. In fact, there is no Devices section in Dolphin unless I mount an external HDD, which then shows up. What I'm not sure about is if the the different partitions are labeled correctly as I hadn't done this since I think 23.10 or earlier, and I'm a little confused by the EFI factor. In my current setup, sda1 is the btrfs partition for all my files, sda2 is supposedly the boot partition with EFI. The system boots fine, I can mount sda onto /mnt, and vdir shows @, @home and the swap. But it does not show up on Dolphin, and it used to, So I think I did something wrong on the manual partitioning process, but just don't know what.Comment
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Maybe it's been turned off?Originally posted by oldgeek View Post
Do you have a "Places" panel? If not, settings, show panels, toggle Places on.
If, on the Places panel, you don't see Devices, right-click on the Places panel, click Show All Entries. Then, right-click the "Devices (hidden)" section heading, and uncheck Hide Section.
Regards, John LittleComment
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The Places panel is turned on. I do not see Devices. When I right-click on the panel, I don't see Show All Entries either. I see an Unlock Panels button, but that doesn't do anything that I can see.Comment
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I've just installed the Thunar file system, and my hard drive does appear under the section Computer. So it seems the problem is in Dolphin. At least I can finish setting up my system now, but I would prefer to use Dolphin if I can.Comment
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I experimented a little with this and found the following. My hard disk drive appears under its 'name', but when I click on it, it says 'mountable'. Under devices, there's the entry 'File System', and when I click on it I get what I used to get when I clicked on the internal HDD before on Dolphin. Finally, I mounted /dev/sda1 on /mnt successfully, but when I clicked on File Systems in Thunar I got the same thing as I got before mounting. But when I clicked on mnt, I got the @, @home, and swap file I used to get in Dolphin when I clicked on the internal HDD under Devices. Before I take the time to transer my @home files to the computer, I would like to know if what I see on Thunar is normal. I'm worried about the fact that the HDD is considered 'mountable' and the device is called 'File System. Is that just a characteristic of Thunar?Comment
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(going back a bit) Just curious: Is it true that if you have only one partition on your internal drive, Dolphin will not show Devices category by design?An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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I have 3: sda1 is the btrfs partition, sda2 is the boot partition, and sda3 is the linux swap partition (which I do not want). Dolphin only shows removable devices when I connect an external HDD. It does not show my internal HDD.Comment
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OK. Just one more obvious thing: have you tried re-booting?An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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Because I don't know anything about brtfs, I probably should stay out of this.
First thought: What does all this look like in, say, GParted?Device Start End Sectors SizeType
/dev/sda1 2048 976562175 976560128 465,7G BIOS boot
/dev/sda2 976562176 976771071 208896 102M EFI System
/dev/sda3 976771072 976773134 2063 1M Linux swap
Does this look OK?
Second thought:
sda1: Is that a "BIOS boot" partition?
Isn't such a partition used to boot a modern computer using legacy GRUB? (i.e., not using UEFI)
Using btrfs, is it normal to place that flag ("BIOS boot") on the btrfs partition?
However, sda2 looks like an ESP(EFI System Partition) used to boot your computer using UEFI (i.e., not using legacy GRUB).
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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