I have an external drive with a temperature monitoring app I forgot the name of.
Can I view a list of the installed apps on that drive (in other words, can I see it via the terminal
on the computer the ext drive is plugged into)
Thanks
Mark S
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2023-06-10
Here are some command examples to will inform you what drive is available be it an internal or external, the sdb1 drive is my docking station to back up all my data.
Greetings. Just wondering if you could help me out. Peppermint Devuan installed fine and ran well. But now, on every boot, it wont read any external drives or USB flash drives. Perhaps a compatibility issue ? any ideas ? Thanks so much. Appreciate the community here.
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These are not exact answers but just some things I found that could be related.....
Check USB and Drive Mounting make sure that the system is recognizing and mount USB drives. You may need to manually mount the drives using terminal commands to verify if they are detected by the system.
Hmmm ... could t be that the GRUB bootloader is not configured properly, which can affect the detection of external drives. maybe check the /etc/default/grub file and ensure that the GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER is set to false if you have multiple operating systems or drives. After making changes, run sudo update-grub to apply them.
Sometimes, kernel or driver issues can prevent the system from recognizing external devices. Make sure your system is updated, and consider check for any available driver updates that might resolve compatibility issues.
Check that the external drives are formatted with a compatible file system (e.g., ext4, FAT32) and that there are no partitioning issues that could prevent the drives from being read.
It might be worth checking if there are known hardware compatibility issues with Devuan and your specific hardware setup. Sometimes, certain USB controllers or chipsets might not be fully supported.
These are just best guesses,,,,,hope they help
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Try this command below then once installed, open your file manager depending on desktop and check that devices are set to automount or browse once plugged in.
in nemo for example.. edit > plugins > behaviour > media handling.
Hi there. Thanks Peppermint OS and rayzer for your help. Sadly, no success as yet. Using a different system in the meantime. I may revert back to Dev 4 version as it was super reliable. I had looked at Acor as its a sister OS but while installing with encryption, it always fails and drops to a busybox shell saying it can't find some file ! I still run the new XFCE Peppermint on my All-in-one desktop and no issues there so yes, perhaps a compatibility issue. See how it goes. Thanks again.
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Greetings again. Back with Peppermint Devuan 4. Always a little tricky in getting it to recognize the wifi adaptor but once that's done, its all good and as I mentioned above, super reliable and no problem with external drive recognition. I see its supported until some time in 2026, so maybe I will have a new laptop by then ha ha. Or an update down the track to Peppermint Devuan 5 may help with compatibility issues. Have a great week and we will see if the All Blacks can topple South Africa :)
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I have an external drive with a temperature monitoring app I forgot the name of.
Can I view a list of the installed apps on that drive (in other words, can I see it via the terminal
on the computer the ext drive is plugged into)
Thanks
Mark S
Here are some command examples to will inform you what drive is available be it an internal or external, the sdb1 drive is my docking station to back up all my data.
The
lscommand will inform what files and folders are available.To obtain what apps are installed in the external drive. You need to open the terminal in your external drive with this command.
ls /usr/share/applications | awk -F '.desktop' ' { print $1}' -Thanks!
MS
Greetings. Just wondering if you could help me out. Peppermint Devuan installed fine and ran well. But now, on every boot, it wont read any external drives or USB flash drives. Perhaps a compatibility issue ? any ideas ? Thanks so much. Appreciate the community here.
These are not exact answers but just some things I found that could be related.....
Check USB and Drive Mounting make sure that the system is recognizing and mount USB drives. You may need to manually mount the drives using terminal commands to verify if they are detected by the system.
Hmmm ... could t be that the GRUB bootloader is not configured properly, which can affect the detection of external drives. maybe check the /etc/default/grub file and ensure that the GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER is set to false if you have multiple operating systems or drives. After making changes, run sudo update-grub to apply them.
Sometimes, kernel or driver issues can prevent the system from recognizing external devices. Make sure your system is updated, and consider check for any available driver updates that might resolve compatibility issues.
Check that the external drives are formatted with a compatible file system (e.g., ext4, FAT32) and that there are no partitioning issues that could prevent the drives from being read.
It might be worth checking if there are known hardware compatibility issues with Devuan and your specific hardware setup. Sometimes, certain USB controllers or chipsets might not be fully supported.
These are just best guesses,,,,,hope they help
Try this command below then once installed, open your file manager depending on desktop and check that devices are set to automount or browse once plugged in.
in nemo for example.. edit > plugins > behaviour > media handling.
in thunar edit > preferences > advanced > volume management > configure > removable storage
sudo apt install pmount usbmuxd gvfs gvfs-fuse gvfs-backends
Hi there. Thanks Peppermint OS and rayzer for your help. Sadly, no success as yet. Using a different system in the meantime. I may revert back to Dev 4 version as it was super reliable. I had looked at Acor as its a sister OS but while installing with encryption, it always fails and drops to a busybox shell saying it can't find some file ! I still run the new XFCE Peppermint on my All-in-one desktop and no issues there so yes, perhaps a compatibility issue. See how it goes. Thanks again.
Greetings again. Back with Peppermint Devuan 4. Always a little tricky in getting it to recognize the wifi adaptor but once that's done, its all good and as I mentioned above, super reliable and no problem with external drive recognition. I see its supported until some time in 2026, so maybe I will have a new laptop by then ha ha. Or an update down the track to Peppermint Devuan 5 may help with compatibility issues. Have a great week and we will see if the All Blacks can topple South Africa :)