Bugzilla – Bug 115551
unable to access non reisersfs drives
Last modified: 2006-08-17 07:33:47 UTC
After installation I can open the desktop icon labeled "my computer" and see all of the partitions on my machine. I have NTFS, FAT32, and reisers partitions. Only the reisers partitions are accessible. If i try to open the FAT32 disk I get the following: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: can't find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Shouldn't the drives be accessible? Why list them if not? I tried to edit the /etc/fstab file to be able to access this partition but was unsuccessful.
Please attach yast log files: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST Thomas, please request another necesary informations.
This has nothing to do with yast2-storage or yast2 at all, the data for these icons comes from HAL.
Which desktop you use? KDE? GNOME? This works for me with KDE. Sounds like gnome problem.
This may also depend on the fstab content, maybe it only works if the filesystems have an entry in /etc/fstab
Not sure, but there was a bug in GNOME with partitions which are mounted but not in the fstab. If this is a problem under GNOME reassign this to the gnome guys.
Created attachment 49151 [details] amended fstab I fixed the problem by using the line from a knoppix generated fstab and and pasting into the SuSE fstab. The drive that I added is at the bottom of the file and is for /dev/sdb1. Screen shots to follow.
file:///home/rob/snapshot1.png
Created attachment 49152 [details] result of clicking on the "my computer" icon All my drives and partitions are shown. Only the reisers drives are accessible hdb1 (6.2G media) with kanotix installed, hdb3 (11G media) with SuSE 10.0 beta 4 installed, and sda1 (common linux) my linux files and stuff.
Created attachment 49153 [details] error that is reported when accessing drives This is the same error that I was getting when trying to access the drive sdb1. This shot was taken of the same error reported when trying to access an NTFS partition.
What's interestig is if you look at my fstab file, it contained an entry for /dev/sda1 (common linux partition) so it does not appear to be a scsi issue. It seems to me that if they are listed as drives on my computer then I should be able to mount them. But they were like curtains hanging on the wall but when you open them there is only a brick wall wall where a window should be. Not sure that it is a YaST2 problem but figured that it may be an issue with the install setup and configuration done by YaST2. What additional info or log files do you need? Computer info: AMD Athlon 1800 Iwill XP333 MB 512 Mb ram SiS 315 AGP video card (not supported but VESA works when booted no frame buffer) 2x 60 GB IDE hard drives 1 IDE DVD-rom 1 IDE DVD writer 2x 32 GB SCSI hard drives 1 SCSI CD-r Network card and SCSI card
Created attachment 49156 [details] YaST2logs
Created attachment 49157 [details] hwinfo
looks like a problem of KDE, also if I can't reproduce this.
can't actually follow the whole bug, but perhaps you can have a look at bug 86991 and bug 102918 and see if you can find some correlation there?
not able to reproduce