Device mounting problem with Mint 20.2
by kologha from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5NWEQ)
Hi everyone,
I have a Lenovo V330 - 151GM Thinkcentre Desktop with a 500Gb HDD running Linux Mint 20.2.
I have been using the following setup for a number of years now ever since I moved from WinXP to Linux Ubuntu probably in about 2015. On this HDD I have two partitions, /dev/sda5 for the system (92Gb) and dev/sda6 (374Gb) for my private files. Both of these partitions are enclosed in an extended partition /dev/sda2 (466Gb). There is no swap file partition. See attached images. For some time now there has been an occasional (1 to 2 times per month) mounting problem after boot up, when my personal partition (sda6....RRG Documents1) does not automount correctly and is not found by Caja File Browser. This problem is generally fixed by opening Disks, then unmounting sda6 and then remounting it, when it then mounts correctly and can be found by Caja. However this does not always work and the system then requires a reboot after which everything is OK. Although it is not really a hassle, I would like to know what could be causing it and how I can fix it. Any ideas? Thanks.
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I have a Lenovo V330 - 151GM Thinkcentre Desktop with a 500Gb HDD running Linux Mint 20.2.
I have been using the following setup for a number of years now ever since I moved from WinXP to Linux Ubuntu probably in about 2015. On this HDD I have two partitions, /dev/sda5 for the system (92Gb) and dev/sda6 (374Gb) for my private files. Both of these partitions are enclosed in an extended partition /dev/sda2 (466Gb). There is no swap file partition. See attached images. For some time now there has been an occasional (1 to 2 times per month) mounting problem after boot up, when my personal partition (sda6....RRG Documents1) does not automount correctly and is not found by Caja File Browser. This problem is generally fixed by opening Disks, then unmounting sda6 and then remounting it, when it then mounts correctly and can be found by Caja. However this does not always work and the system then requires a reboot after which everything is OK. Although it is not really a hassle, I would like to know what could be causing it and how I can fix it. Any ideas? Thanks.
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