Edgy Live CD - internal disk's partitions do not appear on desktop

Bug #68822 reported by Andrew Shugg
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Bug Description

In Dapper my internal hard disk's NTFS partitions were visible on the desktop, had /etc/fstab entries, and /media/sda{1,4} mountpoints. Booting with the Edgy amd64 install CD, I don't see them. A 320GB USB drive is seen as /dev/sdd and a mountpoint created for it under /media. If I run 'sudo fdisk /dev/sda' I can see the internal disk and its partitions, and can mount the filesystems onto /mnt if I like.

Is Edgy deciding for me that it shouldn't display my internal disk's partitions in case I want to install onto them, or something?

Andrew S.

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Andrew Shugg (ashugg) wrote :

I'm not sure what the process is that "discovers" disk partitions and automagically adds them to /etc/fstab with /etc/media mountpoints - if someone can point me to it I'll see if I can debug what's happening here.

I've confirmed that gnome-volume-manager is running, and that the filesystems /dev/sda1 (ntfs), /dev/sda3 (ext3) and /dev/sda4 (ntfs) can all be mounted.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dmesg|grep sda
[ 75.700787] SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
[ 75.700799] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 75.700801] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 75.700812] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
[ 75.700856] SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
[ 75.700864] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 75.700866] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 75.700877] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
[ 75.700880] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
[ 75.724910] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda

All a bit mysterious ...

Andrew S.

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