[SOLVED] FM not Showing SATA Hard Drive

[Atip]

Do you actually have the directory /mnt/SLX14.
If not, you should manually create one.
Just a thought, why a partition would'n be mounted if it's in fstab, unless ther is not
a directory to mount on, it's a bit confusing, maybe I'm wrong.
I thik I had similar problem on windows partition. If you skip to add those mount points
during installation, later on if you add them in fstab, system itself wont create those directoris.
Yet again, maybe I'm wrong, never had so much trouble over partition mounting

Naturally there is a directory /mnt/SLX14 and it can be mounted with the sudo mount /mount/SLX14 command.
No problem there

[slack631]

If you move SLX14 from /mnt to /SLX14 , should be mounted automaticaly on boot.

[Atip]

Atip, you are either confused, or you are making everything deliberately confusing for everyone else by not providing proper information. I prefer to think it's the former.

In any case, I have already provided you with the solution, but you didn't read it. I'll do you a favor and copy-paste it, this time with the relevant text in bold...

I suggest you remove everything non-essential from your /etc/fstab and just mount the partitions using the file manager.

Thanks, I did read it, however, what is essential seems to differ.
Anyhow, disabled all "non-essential" entries in fstab and FMs do now show my partitions.
Now I am really

[slack631]

I'm still a bit mystified how partitions are mounted under /mnt.
Nevertheless it works now, Linux kernel does the job, and also Xfce.
I believe that even Windows does not have such automatism, it does't even see
Linux partitions, and manually adding partitions in windoze, as far as I know, is problematic.

[slack631]

I'm still a bit mystified how partitions are mounted under /mnt.

Sorry,I saw now, I have subfolders in fstb also. And everything is mounted.

[gapan]

Thanks, I did read it, however, what is essential seems to differ.
Anyhow, disabled all "non-essential" entries in fstab and FMs do now show my partitions.
Now I am really

Remove everything that gets mounted in /mnt/*. Then reboot.

[Atip]

So that is the trick. Does not make much sense to me.
I quickly enabled again my /mnt/partitions in fstab.
Mount command is much faster and Thunar shows the
partitions only by size which makes it hard to pinpoint.

Or in my Salix working box I have lilo.conf to run lilo.
If for whatever reason I have to change my MBR (new kernel
or new distro) as root in console I mount the partitions needed
for lilo run it and be done (made a small script for that).
No user login, no X opened.
Beat that in speed with Thunar.

May be Linux is trying too much to go the way of Windoof.
Would be a shame.

[gapan]

So that is the trick. Does not make much sense to me.

It makes perfect sense. Adding partitions in /etc/fstab is the equivalent of saying "trust me, I know what I'm doing, I will handle these manually".

Thunar shows the
partitions only by size which makes it hard to pinpoint.

You can label the partitions and then the labels will show up in thunar.