How Do I Force A Refresh Of Attached Volumes?

openSUSE 11 RC1

When I plug a USB hard disk in,I get informed of it and get to mount the volumes on the disk.

When I put another hard disk in the computer (while it is turned off of course!) I get nothing.

The volumes are in the fdisk -l printout, but I would really like to be able to mount them using Dolphin.

Is there a way to do a "rescan" of attached drives?

Or, is there another way to mount LUKS encrypted volumes easily?

Thanks

openSUSE 11 RC1

When I plug a USB hard disk in,I get informed of it and get to mount the volumes on the disk.

When I put another hard disk in the computer (while it is turned off of course!) I get nothing.

The volumes are in the fdisk -l printout, but I would really like to be able to mount them using Dolphin.

Is there a way to do a "rescan" of attached drives?

Or, is there another way to mount LUKS encrypted volumes easily?

Thanks
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Add it to "fstab" /etc/fstab You can either edit it as root or use Yast > Partitioner select the disk > edit > give it a mount point like /data2, **do not format** (unless you really want to); reboot to make the new fstab effective.

Search the forum for "fstab"

Have fun

I just discovered the beauty of the SUSE IRC channel .

To mount an encrypted volume (this is mostly for MY memory, but it might help others):

1. Open a terminal and su to root.

2. Run: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb5 foo (where /dev/sdb5 is the drive that contains your encrypted volume, and foo is just a dummy name, use it as is)

3. Now fdisk -l to find out where the volume is. The output will look something like this:

(.....snipped)

/dev/sdb5************7905****** 19262****91233103+**83**Linux
/dev/sdb6********** 19263****** 19457**** 1566306** 82**Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/dm-0: 2812 MB, 2812517376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 341 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 93.4 GB, 93422169600 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11357 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

3. So in my case, the encrypted volume is /dev/dm-1, so now you can mount it: mount /dev/dm-1 /mnt/sdb5, it should now ask you for the password. Oh, make sure the folder to mount it in exists first of course .

4. Look in /mnt/sdb5 (or wherever you mounted it of course!) and you should see your files.

Done