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lepre

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Registered: 2025-02-09

Posts: 1

Drive does not show up in Thunar as mountable

I have a disk that does not show up as mountable in Thunar, it has an XFS filesystem and there's nothing wrong with it. I can mount it manually.

What troubleshooting steps should I take to make it show up?

gvfs-common, gvfs-daemons, gvfs-libs, gvfs is installed.

Added later 26 min 06 s:
gio mount --list

Does not show the device in question, I cannot use gio to mount it. 

him610

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From: Pennsylvania USA

Registered: 2022-02-19

Posts: 26

Re: Drive does not show up in Thunar as mountable

I believe you need to add it to /etc/fstab

Determine UUID of errant disk - these are examples, yours will be different

sudo blkid /dev/sda1
dev/sda1: LABEL="bigdog" UUID="8adbe81d-a4bb-428a-9589-7d989bdb618f" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="shared" PARTUUID="f44aa5c1-231e-4803-b470-105a932c108c"

Edit /etc/fstab to add the disk uuid

# /dev/sda1 added 250303 by user
UUID="8adbe81d-a4bb-428a-9589-7d989bdb618f    /   ext4   defaults   0   0

Save and exit
Hopefully it will work as desired.

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eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 657

Re: Drive does not show up in Thunar as mountable

gio/gvfs is for removable drives. Usb stick, sd cards etc. Is this a removable drive?

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