Re: [opensuse] 12.3 -- why USB HDD not being seen by Midnight Commander?

On 17/03/13 00:28, Greg Freemyer wrote:

Basil Chupin wrote:

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On 16/03/13 19:30, michael norman wrote:

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On 16/03/13 07:08, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

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� Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:46:43 +1100 Basil Chupin �����:

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I have an external SATA3 2TB Western Digital HDD which is formatted (at the moment) in ntfs.

When I switch it on Dolphin opens this HDD and I can see all the files it contains.

But unlike what I got in 12.2 when I start mc (Midnight Commander, my much preferred file manager) mc doesn't 'see' this HDD. In 12.2 it used to be mounted in /media/<name of HDD> .

Well, then use "df" to find out where your DE mounts it. Most likely it is /run/media/<your-user-name>/<device-label>

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In /etc/filesystem I have 'ntfs' as an addition to the list of file systems.

So, why isn't the HDD mounted in /media as in the past?

This is question to those who write this software, not to those who use it.

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Any clues, please?

BC

PS The HDD is also recognised in XP and accessible by all file managers (which I have in XP).

I don't know why it is but on my 12.3 such externaal drives now get mounted in /home/michael/media/name of drive Thanks Michael - it wasn't there. In a moment of exceptional inspiration [tm] ( :-) ) I used Dolphin itself to find it (by looking at the HDDs Properties).

The darn this is mounted in:

/var/run/media/<my-login-name>/

Why there, for chrissake?!

At least I found it.

BC Basil,

How are you making it mount in the first place without dolphin?

When I connect an external drive with 12.3 I am asked by a notifier if I want to open the drive in dolphin.

If I say no, it doesn't mount at all. :(

Verified by that very simple command "mount".

If I then open dolphin and click on the drive on the left side, it gets mounted where you say, but also in /run/media/<my-user-name>.

I do most of my production work on external drives from the command line so having to jump to dolphin is a pain. Especially if I'm using a terminal console (cntrl-alt-f2, etc.)

Greg

In System Settings>Removable Devices I have Mount Device When Attached selected, and when I switch it on - or plugin a USB memory stick - Dolphin asks me if I want to open the device using Dolphin. And, as you say, if I ignore Dolphin's question the device is NOT mounted and I then have to mount it manually. But what is now occurring is that when Dolphin goes to read the device the device is mounted in /var...... and not simply in /media/<ID-of-the-device> where these devices have been mounted for many years. My preferred file manager since I started fooling around with Linux has been mc which I use for 99.9% of the time. So when I plug-in a USB stick or switch on the external HDD I allow Dolphin to access it then I close down Dolphin and use mc. Seeing as how USB devices are mounted in /var/..... I juat may create a symlink in /media because after all these years going to /media to access the device is second nature - AND it requires less keystrokes to get to the mounted device! BC -- Using openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 with KDE 4.10.1 & kernel 3.8.2-3 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org