[arch-general] /etc/fstab :no ext. hdd

[Greg]

Hi,

On arch, such things as adding external drives to fstab are left up to  
the user :)

Just add a line for it.

/dev/sdb1 /media/externalhd ext3 user 0 0

Of course, change for the actual device name, filesystem, and desired  
mount point. You may also need to change the mount options, but that  
line works for my for my external he on my server.

As for the multiple cdrom entries, the second cdrom is actually your  
DVD drive. (or vice-versa) I believe my laptop with an all in one  
drive has two entries in fstab aswell.

On Mar 29, 2009, at 4:56 PM, "Preston C." <gprestonc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I hope that this is not to much of  a noob question, but since I
> started using Arch I haven't been able to access my external hard
> drive through KDE. I posted on the forums about the problem but it
> seems that the other people who had the problem, had the problem in a
> different way. My problem is I can access my cdrom drive through the
> desktop but cannot access my external hdd. When I try to I get an
> error message concerning HAL Permission Policy. So I read back through
> The Beginners Guide and two things came to mind- user 'groups' and
> /etc/fstab.
>
> In /etc/fstab these are the devices that show:
>
> /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
> /dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom1   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
> /dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
>
> No external hdd? Also, why are there two cdrom devices when I only
> have 1 cd drive and 1 dvd drive?
>
> I was wondering if the external hdd doesn't exist in /etc/fstab
> because I did not add it as a 'group' (which I think I did) or for
> some other reason? Supposedly I could use HAL, in some way- although I
> would rather have the external hdd in /etc/fstab. How do I get the
> external hdd to exist in /etc/fstab , which I think it should?
>
> Thanks,
> Preston
>