Re: [e-users] (no subject)

On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 17:59:03 +0200 comantelix36 <[email protected]> said:

> Hello,
> I am using Enlightenment 0.25.4 and I am trying to get Enlightenment to
> display secondary HDD as an mountable HDD in file manager. Previously I
> used the HDD this way under KDE.
> The computer in question is a dual Sata disk laptop with installation on
> NixOS on SSD at /dev/sdb and a secondary data HDD at /dev/sda. The HDD is
> not displayed by the enlightenment file manager (EFM), while any other USB
> flashdrive or USB HDD I tried worked flawlessly. The HDD contains one Ext4
> partition labeled "Data" and is omitted from the the fstab, so that it is
> not mounted by the system automatically. The EFM is set to UDISKS2 mode.
> I suspected the EFM considers the HDD a "system drive" (as in udev
> HintSystem) and hides it. Before my intervention the HDD was reported by
> udiskctl (# udisksctl info -b /dev/sda) "HintSystem: true". Adding
> appropriate udev rule I changed this to false (both for /dev/sda and the
> /dev/sda1 partition). This did not help. I have inspected the source code
> concerning UDISKS2 from EFM (src/bin/e_fm/e_fm_main_udisks2.c) where I
> found check for "HintSystem" applied to block devices. There is also a
> check applied to storage devices: non-removable, non-hotswappable,
> non-ejectable storage device is considered system. It seems to me that this
> check is not be applied to block devices. Finally I also removed the "~/.e"
> directory, which did not help as well.
> Thanks in advance for any help.

efm is meant to show icons for removable devices - the kind that can be
unplugged/ejected/removed etc. everything else is a system drive and should be
handled by fstab as its not a removable device.

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