On Friday 05 February 2010 23:59:42 David C. Rankin wrote:
On 02/05/2010 09:12 PM, Bob S wrote:
On Friday 05 February 2010 03:54:40 David C. Rankin wrote: ................<snjpped all previous>............. Bob,
I'm confused (not uncommon), when you boot 11.2, or any of the other OS's, I see that backup, datastorage, and mediadata should be mounted -- period on /backup, /datastorage, and /mediadata (presuming 'mediadata' is actually your 'mediastorage' in disguise ;-)
<wild ass guess>
When I think about things that could skuttle the mount and cause problems similar to what you are seeing, the number-one thought is that somehow during one of your boots into one of the OS's one, or all, of the drives failed to mount and data got written to the 'mount point' ending up on the / partition under the /backup, /datastorage, and /mediadata 'directories' instead of the actual 'partitions' that is now causing problems in mounting the drives because you have a non-empty mount-point and throws a /dev/sda... error because that is the drive where the partition should have been mounted, but now contains only spurious data.
Now I do not know how this is handled with any of the newer suse releases, but in the past, long before the new mystery of hal/dbus/PolicyKit descended upon us -- if you had a partition fail to mount and wrote data to the mount point when no partition was mounted, then when the mount problem was fixed, the next time you actually had a successful mount, the mounted partition would simple "cover up" the underlying data in the mount point/directory and things would simply carry on as normal until you unmounted the partition and did an ls on the mount point only to discover there were still files on the 'unmounted' partition... Now, who knows with the new wizardry.
I don't know if this is your problem or not, but a simple way to check is to boot into the OS of your choice and then 'umount' the /backup, /datastorage, and /mediadata partitions and then do a simple 'ls' on the mount point.
Clear as mud -- Right??
No, following so far. I think.
A little more investigation shows I can open the two fat partitions (/dev/sda1 & /dev/sdc7) but have to give the root password to Dolphin.
I think Carlos nailed this one user/users fat/vfat..
No, not exactly. See my reply to Carlos. ...........<more snippage>............
When I started this reply, I was still shady on exactly what you are seeing when you boot and can't get the drives mounted. I'm not saying I can solve it with this additional information, but posting it might help me or someone else get to the bottom of it. I think the following information would help
OK, Will follow your lead and instructions. But each OS has a different output and I will publish it all. Have a place to publish it if anyone is really interested in it. But not until Monday or Tuesday. after the Superbowl !!!
With all that additional information, hopefully we will be able to discover where the gremlins in your system are hiding. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org