Unable to mount harddrives only the one Q4OS is installed on

[Anonymous]

Unable to mount harddrives only the one Q4OS is installed on. Like the other guy posted a similar problem this will not go away after a reboot.

I get this message after doubble clicking on a harddrive in konqueror :

Unable to mount this device.
Potential reasons include:
Improper device and/or user privilege level
Corrupt data on storage device
Technical details:
org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.NotAuthorizedCanObtain: Not authorized to perform operation

hope you can help :)

[Q4OS Team]

Only root is allowed to mount hard drives, you can do it manually from terminal:
$ sudo mount /dev/sdax /mnt
where sdax is the harddrive to mount

or run konqueror as superuser from 'Start menu -> Accessories -> System -> Superuser' and click to mount the device.

[Anonymous]

was able to mount in terminal but it was not permanent. after reboot it was unmounted.
Did some old fashion google research and found out i needed to edit the fstab and add this line : UUID=MyUUID /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

UUID i found by typing sudo blkid in terminal

and this works.

thanks for help

[Anonymous]

Forgive my ignorance, but I just installed Q4OS as well and have the same problem. I've used Ubuntu for the last 8 or 9 months with barely any problem, but now I can no longer access ANY of my NTSF partitions. Now, not to sound like a complete dim bulb here but...what is fstab and how do I find it? I tried the command line in the terminal and it didn't work. If I can't get Q4OS to read the other drives, I'll be forced to go back to Ubuntu. Hope you can help me.

[Q4OS Team]

Run 'konqueror' file manager as superuser from 'Start menu -> Accessories -> System -> Superuser', click to 'Folders' toolbutton to view left tab, click 'System' on the left tab, click 'Storage media' to show available disks, select and click your device to mount.

[Anonymous]

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Okay, this isn't working. I can apparently open and view the files from within Konqueror, but I can't copy files from them into the Q4os directories. And if I attempt to open the partitions outside of Konqueror, I get an error message saying the directory doesn't exist. How do I set these partitions so that they mount automatically on boot up? That's what I need to know. If it can't be done I can't use this OS. Please let me know.

[Q4OS Team]

There is a new related update, please upgrade your system in terminal first:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install policykit-1-gnome
Reboot your machine. Click 'My Computer' icon on the desktop, click 'Storage media' and doubleclick the disk drive to mount.

If you want to mount disk on system boot, you have to add a line into '/etc/fstab' file, for example:
'/dev/sdb1 /mnt/my_disk ext2 rw,defaults,auto 0 0'
You will need to change:
'/dev/sdb1' .. disk drive to mount
'/mnt/my_disk' .. directory to mount to
'ext2' .. disk filesystem

[Anonymous]

I had the same issue with mounting my other partition. I followed your instructions above and the problem is solved. Thank you for the post.

[Anonymous]

Okay, here is the fstab as I plan to edit it. Is this formatting correct. I have made a backup of the original fstab BTW. I will probably go ahead and save changes now and attempt to reboot and see if it works. If not...well....

/etc/fstab: static file system information.

Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a

device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices

that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).

<file system=""> <mount point=""> <type> <options> <dump> <pass></pass></dump></options></type></mount></file>

/ was on /dev/sda3 during installation

UUID=38fe13dc-3784-4a77-94bb-128b0bff6e89 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

swap was on /dev/sda4 during installation

UUID=cb11b59e-c112-4583-8558-7a62e2367c45 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sr1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/media/windows ntfs,defaults,auto 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/media/windows ntfs,defaults,auto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/media/windows ntfs,defaults,auto 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /mnt/media/windows ntfs,defaults,auto 0 0
/dev/sdb3 /mnt/media/windows ntfs,defaults,auto 0 0