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@xxxxxxxxx> 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
