HDD Mounted drive oddity

**DB1** · 11-09-2005, 12:57 PM

My laptop has one small partition that I have formatted for Knoppix with a mkfs, partly to store the saved configuration files but also to hold the odd program I need installed. The system mounts it as /mnt/hda5.

If I open a terminal session and cd to /mnt/hda5 and do a ls there is nothing there. It seems I have to click the desktop icon and wait for the gui to display the drive and *then* I can cd around in the terminal session and see everything.

??

**Harry Kuhman** · 11-09-2005, 10:32 PM

I think the answer is as simple as: Clicking the desktop icon does a mount command for you. If you for some reason don't want to click on the desktop icon, then go to a shell and type man mount and then use the mount command to mout the partition yourself.

**DB1** · 11-10-2005, 09:00 AM

I was under the impression that all the hard disk partitions were mounted read only at boot time.

**Dave_Bechtel** · 11-12-2005, 06:34 AM

No, they are not. They mount as r/o when you click on them in the GUI, but the default behavior is not to mount anything on the HD unless you have a swapfile/partition or a Poor Man's Install.

Originally Posted by DB1

I was under the impression that all the hard disk partitions were mounted read only at boot time.

**DB1** · 11-12-2005, 12:15 PM

Thanks for thet. Altough I would have thought that it would have mounted the drive it got the config info from with a myconfig=scan at boot.

**maxIT** · 11-12-2005, 07:02 PM

Staying on this topic I've noticed a strange behavior on my hdinstall. When I save some files on some partition with kde (just to say a wm) I'm unable to see that file/s with others windowmanagers and vice/versa. I think that maybe it is relate to inodes but I can't figure out what exactly happen

**OErjan** · 11-12-2005, 07:55 PM

could it not be that you save the files to the desktop? that would be diferent directories for different wm's for the most part...

**maxIT** · 11-13-2005, 04:55 AM

What I refer to is 'partition'. I've the installation in hda2. If I save from kde a file in /mnt/hda3 and then make 'ls /mnt/hda3' (after mounting it of course) from fluxbox I see nothing, and the same thing vice/versa saving from fluxbox...etc. Every wm see only the file they've saved. This issue seems to me doesn't happen saving files on the same hda2 partition.