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

[Jordy van Wolferen]

On Sunday 29 March 2009 22:56:57 Preston C. 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

For you HAL problems:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Hal_0.5.11-7_trick