I use back-in-time to take an hourly snapshot of my data to an external USB 2 drive. When I first boot LMDE (XFCE), back-in-time cannot find it's snapshots folder. If I open Thunar I can see the mounted folder and even navigate in to it and see the files, with read / write access for my user but back-in-time still won't find the folder. I then use Disk Utility to unmount / mount the drive and then back-in-time sees the snapshot folder.
I haven't been able to find a way to get back-in-time to see the drive at boot without this intervention and quite frankly it's frustrating! Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks
TB
[Solved] Strange issue with external drive - possibly permis
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[Solved] Strange issue with external drive - possibly permis
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Re: Strange issue with external drive - possibly permissions
In case it helps
mtab: straight after boot
mtab: after opening drive in Thunar
mtab: after unmounting / mounting
It's sdf1 which is having the problem.
mtab: straight after boot
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/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sda6 /home/trollboy/Documents ext4 rw,commit=0 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
cgroup /dev/cgroup/cpu cgroup rw,cpu 0 0
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/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sda6 /home/trollboy/Documents ext4 rw,commit=0 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
cgroup /dev/cgroup/cpu cgroup rw,cpu 0 0
/dev/sdf1 /media/external_ ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
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/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sda6 /home/trollboy/Documents ext4 rw,commit=0 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
cgroup /dev/cgroup/cpu cgroup rw,cpu 0 0
/dev/sdf1 /media/external ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks 0 0
Re: Strange issue with external drive - possibly permissions
sudo chown -R *log-in name*:*log-in name* /media/*mount point of disk here*
This will give your computer full-time permission to view all files on a mounted disk. Hope this helps.
This will give your computer full-time permission to view all files on a mounted disk. Hope this helps.
Re: Strange issue with external drive - possibly permissions
Oh man that's embarrassing!
I was replying to your post when something I was about to say about the drive not being mounted at boot, reminded me that I hadn't added it into my fstab yet. Thanks for the whack with the clue stick. I needed that
For those who are interested, I added
I was replying to your post when something I was about to say about the drive not being mounted at boot, reminded me that I hadn't added it into my fstab yet. Thanks for the whack with the clue stick. I needed that
For those who are interested, I added
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/dev/sdf1 /media/external ext4 defaults,rw,nosuid,relatime
Re: Strange issue with external drive - possibly permissions
Glad I could help. Everything working OK now?
Re: Strange issue with external drive - possibly permissions
Yep - just had a backup taken without any intervention