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
