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Partitions showing double
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:48 am
by Zyzz
Hi,
I installed LMDE a few months ago then edited fstab to have my other partitions mounted as well (not on auto).
Now when I open Nemo/Caja/Nautilus I see the partitions double (the last 3 Datenbank, TAUSCH, Filme).
Here's a screenshot:
caja_partitions.png
Does anyone know what caused this? Any more info needed? If you know a topic about that please link it.
Re: Partitions showing double
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:40 pm
by xenopeek
Can you share the contents of your /etc/fstab file? And the output of:
Re: Partitions showing double
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:22 pm
by Zyzz
fstab
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=dcb1e959-1990-42fc-9048-4bf1856aca9a / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sdc3
UUID=25e3e9d2-c84b-47f7-9790-9c241cee3172 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sda4
UUID=dc741f26-025e-4910-838b-daa05562c925 /media/LMDE\040SSD ext4 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=9a8aafa9-9821-4240-a58c-374a756d32c3 /media/Datenbank ext4 noauto,user,defaults 0 2
# /dev/sdb3
UUID=8804-0168 /media/TAUSCH vfat noauto,user,uid=1000,umask=0022 0 0
# /dev/sdd1
UUID=77cc2456-e876-49c5-9697-ca650dfbdb37 /media/Filme ext4 noauto,user,defaults 0 2
parted (wasn't installed):
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zyzz@zyzz-pc:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA SAMSUNG SSD 830 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 128GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
2 106MB 62,9GB 62,8GB primary ntfs
3 62,9GB 83,9GB 21,0GB primary ext4
4 83,9GB 128GB 44,1GB primary ext4
Model: ATA ST3300620AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 300GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 105GB 105GB primary ntfs boot
2 105GB 268GB 163GB primary ext4
3 268GB 300GB 32,0GB primary fat32 lba
Model: ATA WDC WD1002FBYS-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
3 30,1GB 1000GB 970GB primary ext4
Model: ATA Hitachi HDP72505 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32,3kB 500GB 500GB primary ext4
Thanks.
Re: Partitions showing double
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:49 pm
by xenopeek
I'm not sure, but /media is for mounting removable storage devices. /mnt is where you would normally mount internal hard disks with /etc/fstab. Perhaps this is causing some duplication? Also note that you have /dev/sda4 mounted as "LMDE SSD" in /media, and hence it is showing the remove device icon next to its name in the file manager's sidebar. I'd think unmounting everything from /media, moving the folders there to /mnt and updating /etc/fstab to mount on /mnt instead of /media may possibly resolve this.
Re: Partitions showing double
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:33 pm
by Zyzz
Now the partitions are all gone from the sidebar. Only the 2 Windows partitions not mentioned in fstab are showing.
When I open Caja as admin I have the 3 double partitions showing once and being mounted (which should not be if I understand the fstab correctly).
A "sudo umount -a" makes them disappear as well (and some error about not removable devices.... lucky me linux is smarter than me here *g*)
A "mount -a" mounts my LMDE partition and nothing else (as it should be). The 3 partitions are now showing in the admin Caja ready to be mounted via click but not in Caja without admin rights. (Nemo/Nautilus same).
Here a screenshot ("Print" seems to be bugged, I got several different screenshots, first only my background then firefox, then only a few windows and finally the correct one (after a few Cinnamon restarts):
comparison.png
In the screenshot I unmounted TAUSCH. I finally know now what the "double" symbol was representing.
Any clue?
Re: Partitions showing double
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:55 pm
by xenopeek
Mounting in /mnt is perhaps not the best option for noauto. File managers don't show unmounted devices there. Not sure how to get it do what you want. Moving it here, as I think this is more fstab related than desktop environment.
Am I making a worse mess of this?
Re: Partitions showing double
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:14 pm
by Zyzz
Oh ok. Well I can revert that anytime.
But why is LMDE SSD not showing which is on auto mount?
Re: Partitions showing double
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:20 pm
by xenopeek
Automatically mounted partitions aren't shown, unless you mount them in /media as you previously did. The partition is mounted and you can access the files at /mnt, so why would you want to see the partition in the sidebar as you aren't going to unmount it as you would with removable devices that are normally mounted in /media.
Re: Partitions showing double
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:31 pm
by Zyzz
That makes sense. For practical purposes I will put that back to media then again or put the folder to the sidebar which would be the "cleaner" solution.
EDIT: Linux doesn't shut down harddrives that aren't used anyway right? So I could automount them all and use "folders" to access them instead of the harddrive symbol. They are all build in anyway.
A bit offtopic. Do you know if there's an auto shutdown for idle hdds like Win7 has? (Less power consumption, noise and longer life if not started several times a day. I use these drives only rarely.)
Re: Partitions showing double
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:15 am
by xenopeek
Folder in the sidebar is indeed more neat solution. Also, they didn't write that functionality for the sidebar for nothing
I haven't fiddled with power management much, as I'm not running a laptop. But I think if you idle your computer it will power down devices such as hard disks.
Re: Partitions showing double
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:06 am
by Zyzz
I now moved everything to /mnt and have it automounted. I think I need to get used to that but ok.
At the moment the drives aren't powering themselves down (I could hear that as under Windows I notice the noise difference). Maybe that gets implemented to LMDE sometime in the future. (Or I find a program that does that for me.)
Thanks for your help.
Re: Partitions showing double
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:43 am
by xenopeek
hdparm is a tool for configuring power management on hard disks. See heading "Disk Power Management" here:
https://lesswatts.org/tips/disks.php
Re: Partitions showing double
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:07 pm
by Zyzz
Ah cool. The same program I found via googling. But it was a bit too much to read for today for me so I just bookmarked it.
http://info4admins.com/tips-to-spindown ... or-ubuntu/