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forcedtopicksomething

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Registered: 2023-07-26

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Thunar doesn't detect my internal disks under "Devices"

In Thunar in Xfce, under "Devices" in the sidebar, it only shows one item called "File System". Clicking it shows the / dir, as one can expect.

I wish for this "Devices" area to also list my three other internal disks. They are LUKS2-encrypted and cryptsetup-opened and mounted at boot (*not* using the fstab file!) with "/disk2", "/disk3" and "/disk4" as their mount points.

I have those mountpoints bookmarked in the "Places" part of the sidebar, which works, but they just look like random folders rather than drives and this really bothers me. How do I make them show up under "Devices" instead?

Note that I mount them using the command `sudo mount /dev/blabla /disk2` etc. in my startup script. There are good reasons for why I don't use the fstab file. (Basically I got locked out from my computer once for making a minimal mistake in the syntax of that file. I also like to keep everything related to my stuff in one place.)

I can't use `udisks2` (as ChatGPT insists on when I ask it about this) because according to its manual it inexplicably doesn't let you select the mountpoint but instead force-picks one for you, which would break everything about my setup.

I don't understand why Thunar wouldn't "see" disks mounted with the `mount` command in the first place. There must be something very simple that I'm overlooking...

eriefisher

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Re: Thunar doesn't detect my internal disks under "Devices"

Do you have "Volume Management" enabled and configured?

Thuanr >> Edit >> Preferences >>  Advanced

Without the use of the fstab I assume the drives are seen as removable. Much like an usb drive. Just a guess as I don't use LUKS/crypt.

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forcedtopicksomething

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Registered: 2023-07-26

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Re: Thunar doesn't detect my internal disks under "Devices"

Do you have "Volume Management" enabled and configured?

It's enabled/checked, yes, but not sure what you mean by "configured".

All of the checkboxes are unchecked in the "Removable Storage" section, if that's what you mean. I assume that's the default (but unsure). None of them *seem* relevant to me.

Without the use of the fstab I assume the drives are seen as removable. Much like an usb drive. Just a guess as I don't use LUKS/crypt.

That's weird if it does, because they are internal NVMe sticks right on the motherboard and certainly don't use USB in any way.

gogogadget

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Registered: 2023-03-19

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Re: Thunar doesn't detect my internal disks under "Devices"

That's weird if it does, because they are internal NVMe sticks right on the motherboard and certainly don't use USB in any way.

It could be because you don't use udisks2, I had an internal HDD not set in /etc/fstab and still could see it under "Devices"

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forcedtopicksomething

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Registered: 2023-07-26

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Re: Thunar doesn't detect my internal disks under "Devices"

It could be because you don't use udisks2

But why is "udisk2" needed instead of the "mount" command? Like I (think I) said, it doesn't even support specifying the mount point, which would break everything.