[DriveSetup] Partition->Mount All option doesn't always work

[Disreali]

What revision?

[diver]

Sorry, it's hrev39274.

[stargatefan]

works fine on the gcc4 hybrid hrev39274 ??? maybe its a problem with one of the drives. what are the drive file formats you are attempting to mount ?

IE NTFS,FAT32,EXT ? BFS ?

I have had problems with mounting NTFS under windows 7 64 bit.

[diver]

It's BFS partition which mounts/unmounts ok using DriveSetup, but won't mount using "Mount all" option or Alt+Shift+M. Trying to do that in Terminal doesn't print anything.

[stippi]

Fixed in hrev39891. It definitely works. If individual partitions fail to mount, it's a different problem. In some circumstances, all your unmounted partitions may fail to mount for another problem, but this function in DriveSetup works as intended.

[diver]

The problem still exists for me in hrev39894.

• I unmounted my /data (bfs) partition
• Used Partition->Mount All to mount it back.

[stippi]

I tested exactly such a scenario multiple times and with different combinations of partitions being unmounted, via Tracker and via DriveSetup itself. What happens if you try to mount just that partition? In any case I need more information. If have one NTFS partition which mounted once in DriveSetup (Mount all feature) and then not anymore in subsequent tries, while other partitions (BFS and ReiserFS) mounted fine. Trying to mount the NTFS partition individually gave me a "Permission denied" error (WTF?!). The "Mount all" feature as such works like intended.

[diver]

Mounting and unmounting of that partition works both from Tracker and DriveSetup. I even tested with default locale - same thing.

[stippi]

Do you have more than one drive perhaps?

[diver]

Nope, it's a 2Gb virtual drive (.vdi image) connected in VirtualBox.

[Disreali]

Not experienced on hrev40859-4h on real hw. This may just be a issue with VirtualBox.

[diver]

Yep, maybe I can turn on debug output somewhere to help nailing it down? Stippi?

[diver]

Still present in hrev45853.

[diver]

Still present in hrev47897.

[puckipedia]

Okay, I think I found the culprit (for Google Code-in task ​http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2014/6337204683014144). Adding a patch which fixed the problem for me: Mount All doesn't mount file systems directly on the disk itself, only as a partition. Patch has been added.

[stippi]

Thanks! Patch looks good to me. I may not have the time to apply in the near future, so if someone beats me to it, I'd be grateful.

[diver]

I've just tested the patch and it fixes the problem for me. Thanks! :)

[pulkomandy]

Applied in hrev48473.