<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Raymond McLaughlin <<a href="mailto:driveray@ameritech.net">driveray@ameritech.net</a>><br>
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>> Bob Kline wrote:<br>
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>> > I tried Konqueror, and it finds the external<br>
>> > external drive just fine, shows it to be at /disk2/,<br>
>> > and lists the contents.<br>
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>> Do you know, is Konqueror browsing to the actual mount point, or is it<br>
>> following a symlinK?<br>
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> I'm not sure how I would answer that.<br>
> What I can say is that I enter file:///disk2,<br>
> and it display /disk2/ and the directory<br>
> contents.<br>
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>><br>
>> > Entering that in to Firefox brings up nothing,<br>
>> > so it does indeed appear to be a Firefox issue.<br>
>><br>
>> You mean it sees the mount point, but shows an empty directory?<br>
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> Entering either of the items mentioned<br>
> above, a blank page results. How it<br>
> comes to show nothing I'm not sure.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> > For now I can just use Konqueror if need be,<br>
>> > but it would still be of interest to know what<br>
>> > Firefox needs to make it happy.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > -- Bob<br>
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</div></div>1. What's the filesystem on the external disk?<br>
2. What's the output of "mount" on the command line?<br>
3. Are you using fstab to specify the mount? If you are, then what's<br>
the line in fstab for this disk? If you don't know what I'm referring<br>
to, then you're almost certainly not. (And thus can ignore this<br>
question.)<br>
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</font></blockquote><div>As I mentioned in an earlier e-mail,<br>it's an ext3 file system, and I mount it<br>manually, using "mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb7 /disk2".<br>I only use it when I'm backing up, so I have no<br>
reason to get in to fstab. The drive is only used<br>when I do a backup.<br><br> -- Bob<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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