[SOLVED] Can't see my windows partition from openbox

Question

Hi again!
After changing from gnome to openbox my windows partition is not visible , however my external drive is visible and accesible .
I'm using thunar file manager .
What might be the issue ?
THanks for your help!
Last edited by shak (2009-12-02 21:33:38)

Answer 1

If you want the partition to be mounted everytime at boot, i agree with Mr.Elendig:
putting it in fstab is the easiest way to do.
But just in case,  as I see you're using thunar.
If you have thunar-volman installed, you can use "thunar-volman -a DEVICE_UID" to mount whatever you want
1)
blkid
to get the UUID, then
2)
lshal | grep info.udi | grep UUID
to get the full UID
then you can use volman -a /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_B6380918230...
I'm using it in ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh to automount my USB disk at boot, for example:
I wanted to keep the hotplugging possibilies, but even it was automounting OK when plugged after boot, "coldplugging" wasn't working, and it was quite boring having to do it manually (or unplug/replug) it everytime.
Don't know if it's the best way to do it, but it's working perfectly!
Edit:
It will be mounted in /media/disk by default
It's possible to mount this NTFS partition with a specific user, group or name, in case you need it.
(wich can be really usefull to use mpd with your music on a hotplugged NTFS disk, for example: you specify a group, and you make the mpd user part of it...)
Last edited by Tekrotzen (2009-11-26 21:54:58)