Automounting partitions at startup on XFCE and Thunar delayed startup

Hi,
I'm having two issues, both related to Thunar. I have NTFS partitions in the same hard drive that my Arch installation resides. They show up in the left panel of Thunar, and when I click on them, a dialog asking for authentication shows up and after entering my password the partition gets mounted.
I want this partition to be mounted at startup. Is manually editing /etc/fstab the way to go, or should I do it in some other way, maybe messing with gvfs configuration, or something like that?
The second issue, is that Thunar takes a long time to start up on first run, even with the daemon running. Any idea why this could be?
Thanks!

Hmmm. The most obvious difference between the two users is that Thunar starts off viewing /home/user when you start it as a normal user and /root if you start it as root. Could it just be that you have much more stuff in /home/user like hidden directories? And it takes Thunar a long time to populate the treeview (if you set it to display a tree in the side bar)?
Try different combinations like "Thunar /root" as a regular user or "Thunar /home/user" as root. If that's not it, I would recompile Thunar in order to get debugging information https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … ing_Traces and ask an xfce developer who really knows.

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The first question is the first problem I encountered and it can be solved by adding "ck-launch-session" This should have been in the FAQ.
I am now facing the second question now. Here is some hints https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Th … tomounting
I am still trying to figure the problem at this moment.
Edit: After following the instruction on the wiki, automount sill not works.
I found a thread on the forum discussion about this issue. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111867
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Last edited by cecilyen (2011-05-22 22:24:37)

Unmounting Disk Partition at Startup

I have created a partition that I use for emergency startup and to run diagnostics and maintenance utilities for my main HD. I named this partition "Utility HD". Does anyone know how to make this "Utility HD" unmount automatically when startup is complete? I tried writing a script (Applescript), but couldn't find an "unmount" command. Currently, I manually unmount the Utility HD after startup to keep it safe and uncorrupted.
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Hi Allen,
I tried applescripts to disable a backup partition at startup but they were hard to set up for multiple users and were slow.
I have come up with something that does just what I want. It works at startup and affects all users. It is invisible and reversible, but it takes a some work to set up the first time. It assumes you are comfortable with unix. Be careful and use at you own risk, blah, blah, blah. This should not be tried by novices.
Create two text files. The first is named StartupParameters.plist and the second is unmountBackupDrives.
Copy and paste the text between the dashed lines in StartupParameters.plist:
Description = "unmountBackupDrives";
Provides = ("unmountBackupDrives");
Copy and paste the text between the dashed lines in unmountBackupDrives:
#!/bin/sh
. /etc/rc.common
StartService ()
echo "unmounting backup disks if present"
# repeat the following block for each drive/partition to unmount
drive=iMac\ backup
if [ -d "/Volumes/${drive}" ]
then hdiutil unmount "/Volumes/${drive}" -force
fi
drive=G5\ backup
if [ -d "/Volumes/${drive}" ]
then hdiutil unmount "/Volumes/${drive}" -force
fi
StopService ()
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return 0;
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In the above script you need to update the lines with "drive=" with names from your system. Note that the backslash is used to precede spaces in the drive name. If you only want to hide one drive or partition then you don't want the second block of code. You can add more blocks to hide other drives.
The rest of the work is done from the terminal:
Go to where the two text files are located and make the script executable:
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sudo mkdir /Library/StartupItems/unmountBackupDrives
Move your two new files to this directory:
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When you shutdown and boot up next, your backup drives will be first automounted by the system and then unmounted by your new script. When you want them mounted, go to disk utility and you will see them greyed-out. You can manually mount them and they will be ready to go.
-Steve

1 of my HD partition suddenly can't mount and want me to initialize! HELP!!

Hi,
If anyone who frequented these kind of problems before please let me know your solutions solving these problems. Thanks very much!!
I'm a musician and a frequent mac user,I have a Power Mac G4 dual 800 with 1.25GMhz ram running on Mac Os 9.21 but with Mac OS X installed (I need to use Mac OS classic due to some of my music softwares still need to be updated before I upgrade to OS X),I've put the Hard Disk in 2 other sub partition HD at the beginning and have been using it to put all my important audio files and songs files. No problems at all before these nightmare started!
The serious problem I'm having now is I suddenly can't mount one of my partition HD anymore.
-I heard weird sound when starting & re-starting the Mac. (Heard some Hard Disk weird sound like sound "crutch" sound" and since the partition can't be mounted, the first thing shows up after I boot the computer is asking me if I wanna Initialize the Hard Disk because it's unreadable. There is 2 choices for me "Cancel" & "Initialize" But there is no effect when I choose "Cancel" so I use the Force Quit.
2 little message saying my Main Hard Disk & the other partition are damaged but they still showing up properly and still running dangerously I think.
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I've also checked the main HD and the other partition which sometimes had some problems with it but no problems been found.
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2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
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I have not tried it, but first, back up your 10.6 and windows bootcamp install. I think there is software to back up the windows side. Not sure of its name
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Good Morning,
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I've just bought a new iMac with 2 TB hard drive. Can I partition the startup drive?

Glenfern wrote:
The reason I'm considering partitioning is - I'm going to transfer about 50 GB of family photos & music to the iMac. Over time the photos & music library is going to grow. My idea was to point the iphoto & itunes library to the new partition so that the application programs (that will will reside in partition 1), will not get congested with photos & music over time & degrade performance. Also, I dabble a little bit with the music editing program LOGIC & Sound Track Pro, which creates lots of little music files in the process.
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I have a 2011 Mac Mini with two hard drives - the original 500GB drive and a SSD.   The SSD is laid out as follows:
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *60.0 GB    disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS OSX Lion SSD            19.0 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP W7             40.2 GB    disk0s4
It has my two bootable operating systems and works fine (for now) so I am happy to leave it alone.
The problem is with the second drive. It has:
1) EFI partition 200M
2) Original Lion install 40G HFS+
3) Original recovery partition 650M
4) Space set aside for OSX HFS+ 160G (has some big files in it)
5) Space set aside for Windows NTFS 300G (no files in it yet)
I think there is a problem with MBR vs GPT and Disk Utility vs Disk Management.
Disk Utility or fdisk calls it
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data                         37.6 GB    disk1s2 (these entries are wrong)
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data                         650.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         161.5 GB   disk1s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data NTFS stuff              300.1 GB   disk1s5 (this entry seems right)
and I cannot access the partitions in Lion.
Gdisk calls it:
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.1
Partition table scan:
MBR: hybrid
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/disk1: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 0000303E-4D40-0000-1B4C-0000F9090000
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2061 sectors (1.0 MiB)
Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size       Code Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00 EFI system partition
   2          409640        73900919   35.0 GiB    0700 Customer (name is wrong)
   3        73900920        75170455   619.9 MiB   0700 Recovery HD
   4        75170456       390588423   150.4 GiB   0700 stuff
   5       390590464       976773119   279.5 GiB   0700 Basic data partition (name is wrong)
Windows Disk Management is happy to see inside the HFS partitions, so I know all my files are at least still there. I had a 5th NTFS partition formatted, but upon going into Lion and back, it disappeared.
I think ideally what I would like to have is a spare Lion + recovery partition on this drive in case my SSD barfs, then a big NTFS partition to hold my Windows files. I guess merging the 40G OSX and 160G HFS+ partitions will be ok. Could the problem be related to MBR having a limit of 4 partitions? There isn't any data on this drive that isn't backed up, but I would rather do this partition fixing shuffle without having to restore big files. Any suggestions on how to proceed?

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I read many articles on googles yet I still can't figure out how to.
The point that I get is when you're installing Windows using bootcamp, before it actually try to install windows, i have to go back to OSX, choose disk utility and create the 3rd partition.
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