[mp3comanche]

Hi,

got XBMC (source PPA for XBMC SVN BUILDING) installed on top of Lucid Lynx, however I use it as standalone by auto-logging into XBMC session instead of GNOME.

The trouble is I cannot get XBMC automatically mount internal drives (a SATA 500GB and the second partition on the system IDE HDD, both NTFS-formatted). When I log into GNOME session, mount the disk/partition and then log out an log into XBMC again, the drives are accessible.

When I link the SATA via a USB inteface, it works like charm.

Tried to find solutions everewhere, but so far no luck. I was only able to find info that automounting has been disabled in the past (?) and some stuff on XBMC Live, but that's AFAIK another story.

Any suggestions, please? I'd be much grateful for any ideas/hints, preferably described in detail as I am a newbie to the whole Linux thing.

[Flomaster]

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=6...post602839

I'd start by adding those drives to your fstab

adding drives to your fstab

get you device UUID number

from terminal type

Code:

sudo blkid

it should return some thing like this

Code:

/dev/sda1: UUID="8ee3e8ab-33bb-481c-a298-09f435697277" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="6aebcb53-5d6e-4e4c-a1e8-e0fc40d759fd" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="1TB" UUID="3FC1624A6DA7048F" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="WD 250G" UUID="12A8E87AA8E85E2B" TYPE="ntfs"

copy the UUID of the drive you want to mount and run this

Code:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

add this line to the bottom but change the settings accordingly

Code:

UUID=[b]YOUR-UUIDNUMBER [/b]/[b]YOUR/DRIVE/LOCATION [/b]ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

-=Jason=-

-=Jason=-

[mp3comanche]

Thanks, m8, it actually worked. Now I gotta sort things out so that ANY drive connected to eSATA would be recognized automatically, no matter what the UUID and filesystem is. Tried /dev/sxx (and auto parameters) instead of UUID but it gets into conflict with another device....well, can live with the current setup anyway, I am just curious.

Once again, thanks a million.

[Flomaster]

I dunno there is talk about auto mounting but i've not looked into it.

-=Jason=-