Booted from USB, cannot mount/access other hard drives!!

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I have booted up from openSUSE 11.3 on a USB stick. When i go into Dolphin (the file explorer) and try to open a harddrive, I get the error:


An error occurred while accessing 'MyHardDrive', the system responded: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed auth_admin_keep_always <-- (action,result)

What can I do?

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Open a terminal and type: su

Once root eg if your partition is ext4 do: mount -t ext4 /dev/sd?? /path-to/mount-point

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Thanks, that did it! :slight_smile: (And sorry for the thousand and one questions today. It is a unique day for me… :frowning: )

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Wait, 2 questions:

  1. Will this persist across reboots

  2. Is there a recommended path I should set for the mount point? like /home/extradrive?

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No.
I thought this was a live system.
Only in a install can you edit /etc/fstab to set mounting of devices to specific locations

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It is now an installed OS. Yet, this is still happening! Any idea why? What do I put in /etc/fstab to make this persist?

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I have to sleep now
But post your fdisk -l info and tell me which partition it is and where you would like it mounted Eg: In a folder called My_Media or whatever
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[QUOTE=caf4926;2224689]I have to sleep now
But post your fdisk -l info and tell me which partition it is and where you would like it mounted Eg: In a folder called My_Media or whatever

Thanks for helping. I have an additional question after the fdisk results below:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00037060

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2103296 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 * 262 2873 20972544 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2873 38914 289494016 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5c83a37f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 19457 156288321 83 Linux

Why does it say, “Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.” Is this a bad thing? This partition setup was openSUSE Installer’s auto setup.

Thanks!

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Don’t worry too much about it if all is working OK
Google the phrase: Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
It will reveal info

Were you going to tell me the partition you want mounting and placename

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Opps, sorry! (I can be dense sometimes)

I want to mount /dev/sdb. And I suppose I’d like to name it “Extra_Storage”. As for the path to it, does it make sense to put it in something like /dev or /media? It’s an internal HD that’s set to cable select. Thanks!

One quick question: in the “fdisk -l” it says that disk is 160GB, but Dolphin lists it as 149GB. Why the huge discrepancy?

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Formated size is different then RAW size since formating takes up space. fdisk is telling you the RAW size and Dolphin is telling you the formated size.

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Add a line to /etc/fstab like this (I’m assuming it’s ext4, edit as necessary if different)

/dev/sdb1 /EXTRA_STORAGE ext4 defaults 0 0

Now in a su - terminal do

mkdir /EXTRA_STORAGE

Reboot
(we may have to do some ownership stuff, but see)

*Just in case…
FSTAB - Editing Manually

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A few questions:

  1. Why /dev/sdb instead of using the by-id?
  2. It is a physically different HD, does this matter (still use sdb1)?
  3. Why is the “check” column 0 0? Shouldn’t I have the system check for errors?
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OK, now i’m getting a new error:

An error occurred while accessing ‘149.0 GiB Hard Drive’, the system responded: mount: only root can mount /dev/sdb1 on /extra_storage

I should mention:

  1. I do not log in as root
  2. My root/admin password is different than my main user’s password
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Use Dolphin super user
View the folder /extra_storage and right click it > properties >
Change permissions like this
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Argh! I still get the same error!! :frowning:

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Whoah! I checked the propeties -> permissions again in Dolphin super user and they were not applied! I re-applied them, and now they work! Weird.

Thanks for your help!

Two questions:

  1. Will this no persist across reboots?
  2. Why did this happen in the first place?
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Did you check the the apply to all sub folders, reboot?
If still not working…

as su -
from the terminal

chown -R <your user name> /extra_storage

I think…

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It’s permanent
KDE bugs
Just works in Gnome

Can you just post fstab please for me
I’m wondering if there was already an entry by ID

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  1. They do persist across reboots. But you created the folder again, or a different one.
  2. This happened because you created the folder manually, as root. New folders have a default permission order of rwxr-xr-x, this means others than the owner cannot write in the folder.