Hello,

It has been a while since I have wanted to do this, but I am expecting that partitions that are not mounted in fstab would appear in Places, and so could be clicked on and automatically mounted when needed.

Such as ntfs partitions in a dual boot setup.

My Places panel in Dolphin doesn't show the unmounted partitions. Does anyone know what governs whether KDE will look to see what partitions are available and populate them in Places?

In Settings / Removable Devices, all the partitions are present. I have "Enable Automatic mounting of Removable media" enabled, but set to not mount at login or attachment. I only want the partitions to auto mount when I try to access them, but in order to do that they need to appear in Places.

I am part of the "disk" group in /etc/group. This is gentoo KDE SC 4.5.5 btw.

Cheers,

Paul

KDE uses HAL to discover these devices. Please ensure that it is installed and running, alongside it's component in kdebase-runtime.

Thanks,

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 $ ps auwx | grep hal
105       1999  0.0  0.1  14820  3648 ?        Ssl  Aug04   0:01 /usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no
root      2001  0.0  0.0   3284  1000 ?        S    Aug04   0:00 hald-runner
root      2024  0.0  0.0   3340   848 ?        S    Aug04   0:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event6 /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event1
root      2049  0.0  0.0   3340   832 ?        S    Aug04   0:05 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec)
root      2050  0.0  0.0   3352   904 ?        S    Aug04   0:00 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-cpufreq
105       2051  0.0  0.0   3180   816 ?        S    Aug04   0:00 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-acpi
paul     17622  0.0  0.0  40808  3284 ?        S    12:09   0:00 /usr/libexec/gvfs-hal-volume-monitor


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$ equery list  kdebase-runtime-meta
 * Searching for kdebase-runtimemeta ...
[IP-] [  ] kde-base/kdebase-runtime-meta-4.4.5:4.4


hald is running, and I have kdebase-runtime installed. Is there a way I can check runtime to see if the specific runtime component is installed?

Paul

The command "solid-hardware list" should provide a very long list.

Yes, so it does!

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$ fdisk -l | grep dev | grep -v Disk | wc -l
13


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$ solid-hardware list | grep volume | wc -l
13


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$ solid-hardware list | wc -l
150


But I would have expected solid to be able to see the volumes as they appear in Settings / Removable Devices.

Is there something that sits between Places and Solid that may have not noticed the volumes?

Yes, it is possible to filter the devices Solid returns. Unfortunately this is at the discretion of the application... it is likely that internal devices are not shown in Places.

Sure... I am talking about Places in Dolphin. As I understand it is normal for Places to be populated with internal volumes so that you can click them to mount them.

Dolphin shows internal places for me.

Great, we know that it can, even should.

Solid is definitely aware of the devices.

So... what is it that tells Places be populated with the partitions?