[GRLUG] Firefox on an external drive

[Bob Kline]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Raymond McLaughlin <
> driveray at ameritech.net>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Bob Kline wrote:
> >>
> >> > I tried Konqueror, and it finds the external
> >> > external drive just fine,  shows it to be at /disk2/,
> >> > and lists the contents.
> >>
> >> Do you know, is Konqueror browsing to the actual mount point, or is it
> >> following a symlinK?
> >
> > I'm not sure how I would answer that.
> > What I can say is that I enter file:///disk2,
> > and it display /disk2/ and the directory
> > contents.
> >>
> >>
> >> > Entering that in to Firefox brings up nothing,
> >> > so it does indeed appear to be a Firefox issue.
> >>
> >> You mean it sees the mount point, but shows an empty directory?
> >
> > Entering either of the items mentioned
> > above, a blank page results.  How it
> > comes to show nothing I'm not sure.
> >>
> >>
> >> > For now I can just use Konqueror if need be,
> >> > but it would still be of interest to know what
> >> > Firefox needs to make it happy.
> >> >
> >> >     -- Bob
> >>
>
> 1. What's the filesystem on the external disk?
> 2. What's the output of "mount" on the command line?
> 3. Are you using fstab to specify the mount? If you are, then what's
> the line in fstab for this disk?  If you don't know what I'm referring
> to, then you're almost certainly not. (And thus can ignore this
> question.)
>
>
>

As I mentioned in an earlier e-mail,
it's an ext3 file system, and I mount it
manually, using "mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb7 /disk2".
I only use it when I'm backing up, so I have no
reason to get in to fstab.  The drive is only used
when I do a backup.

    -- Bob


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