Problem on opening a device (harddisc)

Hi there,

I am new to opensuse and I have installed it (11.3) with KDE desktop.
I have a problem with openening a device (harddisc) directly from sysinfo:/
It is a ext4 partition, but also with my others (ntfs), this error occurs… :frowning:
The errormessage is:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5002/errordevice.png

What could I do?
Please excuse my bad english, but I am just learning english in school… (I am 17)

Greets
algorithm

I do not know what you mean by “opening directly”. but did you try the right mouse button on it and choose one of the options there (e.g. mount it)?

Thanks for the answer. with “directly” I mean, that I just click with the left mouse button on the “/”…
in the context menue (on right-click) is nothing like “mount”, etc… :frowning:

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/2955/errordevice2.png

What is wrong?

Greets
algorithm

Edit: The “media” folder is empty…

Which is thh one you click on? And what when you choose “Open in new window” (which is what I assume you want, or am I wrong)?

Please the output of the following three statements:

fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab
mount

(And please computer output between CODE tags as in: Posting in Code Tags - A Guide)

Hi,

If I click “open in new window” the same message appears.
I click on the root-partition ("/"). But one every partition it appears this message.


fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 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: 0x0004917a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1       30401   244196001    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2           30402       60800   244179967+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5           30402       60800   244179936    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 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: 0x97a34fe1

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       29618   237906553+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2           29619       30401     6289447+  82  Linux swap / Solaris


cat /etc/fstab:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500JD-55HBB0_WD-WMAL72164315-part2 swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500JD-55HBB0_WD-WMAL72164315-part1 /                    ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500630AS_9QG18EX5-part1 /windows/C           ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=de_DE.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500630AS_9QG18EX5-part5 /windows/D           ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=de_DE.UTF-8 0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0


mount:

/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,mode=1777)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /windows/C type fuseblk (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)
/dev/sdb5 on /windows/D type fuseblk (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev)

Greets
Algorithm

You should open the disk form Konqueror or Dolphin
But the partitions need fstab entries if they don’t already

Yes, I try it with Konqueror and Dolphin… but the same errormessage appears… :frowning:
How do I do the fstab entries?

Algorithm93

Of course is your root partition mounted. And mount shows that the other partitions (sdb1 and sdb5) are also mountd (on /windows/C and /windows/D).
Why do you not surf to / (and the other two mountpoints) using Dolphin/Konqui? I do see no reason whatsoever why you would like to go there using the sysinfo: way.

And does your Dolphin not have a panel at left (called places or locations or something like that) with Main folder and the other ones?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/dolphin-win-folder.mpeg

Dears,
i’ve freshly installed 2days ago openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 and have the same problem.
what causes that “sysinfo:/” to generate links like “file:///dev/sda4” instead of “file:///mybigdata”, if the mountpoint of partition “/dev/sda4” is “/mybigdata” ?
and how or where can I fix that???

Post result of

cat /etc/fstab

then become
su -

fdisk -l

post that too

caf4926,
I promise you, that my partitions and the fstab are correct and i can access all mounted data through dolphin or konqi as well - so thats not the question we are taking about.
What produces the “sysinfo:/” page
as i wrote before: a link with the target “file:///dev/sda4” can’t work, this should be the mountpoint, eg. “file:///mybigdata”, then everything’s alright…
I found the html-templates in /usr/share/kde4/apps/sysinfo - but what’s behind? is it a bash-script, pl or (worst case) binary and where is it located???
was there an update in (KDE 4.4.4) “release 2” to fix, that’s perhaps not recognized in my repository?

Sorry
I struggled understanding your first post

In earlier releases of kde4 (including yours), this was buggy.

In my kde4.5.5 it works perfectly

ok, I just tried the YOU from yast and maybe I can fix it tomorrow…
thanks for your help!