Hi all,
I used to be able to access my data partition from Dolphin by clicking on
the HD icon at the left high corner in Mageia6 and previous version...now
it show only Mageia7.1 and the xp partition...but df command show it normally...
Not really sure what to do

[santo@localhost ~]$ df /dev/sda7
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 63G 57G 5.6G 92% /home

any suggestion is appreciated as usual...
TIA
Santo

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On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 08:51:20 +0000 (UTC), santo wrote:

Hi all,
I used to be able to access my data partition from Dolphin by clicking on
the HD icon at the left high corner in Mageia6 and previous version...now
it show only Mageia7.1 and the xp partition...but df command show it normally...
Not really sure what to do

[santo@localhost ~]$ df /dev/sda7
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 63G 57G 5.6G 92% /home

any suggestion is appreciated as usual...

Need the command and output from a root terminal for

lsblk -o NAME,TYPE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,LABEL,PARTLABEL
and
cat /etc/fstab


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On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 03:59:07 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:

Need the command and output from a root terminal for

lsblk -o NAME,TYPE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,LABEL,PARTLABEL
and
cat /etc/fstab

[root@localhost ~]# lsblk -o
NAME,TYPE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,LABEL,PARTLABEL
NAME TYPE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT SIZE LABEL PARTLABEL
sda disk 232.9G
├─sda1 part ntfs /media/win_c 48.8G OS
├─sda2 part ntfs /media/win_d 97.7G Data
├─sda3 part 1K
├─sda5 part ext4 / 19.5G
├─sda6 part swap [SWAP] 3.4G
└─sda7 part ext4 /home 63.5G
sr0 rom 1024M
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/fstab
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=9cdbfe0c-ac61-4f38-b4cb-fe487c89ca74 / ext4 relatime,acl 1 1
# Entry for /dev/sda7 :
UUID=a08c4840-1d41-4e2f-861e-f4c2c9813d99 /home ext4 relatime,acl 1 2
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=481457A114579134 /media/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,nofail,umask=000 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=6E50C43150C40237 /media/win_d ntfs-3g defaults,nofail,umask=000 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=97ff4293-481f-42e3-a21c-7a2f9d33a133 swap swap defaults 0 0 [root@localhost ~]#

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On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 03:59:07 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:

Need the command and output from a root terminal for

lsblk -o NAME,TYPE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,LABEL,PARTLABEL
and
cat /etc/fstab

Apologies again...Data partition is

/dev/sda2 98G 66G 32G 68% /media/win_d

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On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:28:24 +0000 (UTC), santo wrote:

On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 03:59:07 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:

Need the command and output from a root terminal for

lsblk -o NAME,TYPE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,LABEL,PARTLABEL
and
cat /etc/fstab

[root@localhost ~]# lsblk -o
NAME,TYPE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,LABEL,PARTLABEL
NAME TYPE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT SIZE LABEL PARTLABEL
sda disk 232.9G
├─sda1 part ntfs /media/win_c 48.8G OS
├─sda2 part ntfs /media/win_d 97.7G Data

sr0 rom 1024M
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/fstab

# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=6E50C43150C40237 /media/win_d ntfs-3g defaults,nofail,umask=000 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

Need to look at some permissions, As root
ls -l /media/win_d | head -6

Then run the same command in your user account.

and the output from
id
in your user account.



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On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 07:09:33 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:

Need to look at some permissions, As root
ls -l /media/win_d | head -6

OK...

[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /media/win_d | head -6

total 147752
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 8 2016 $RECYCLE.BIN/
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 28258599 Dec 10 2011 1950_12_05.flv*
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1517000 Oct 27 2015 20151027_161035.jpg*
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1444014 Oct 27 2015 20151027_161145.jpg*
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24576 Aug 1 2016 ANU-Nochi/

Then run the same command in your user account.

[santo@localhost ~]$ ls -l /media/win_d | head -6
total 147752
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 8 2016 $RECYCLE.BIN/
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 28258599 Dec 10 2011 1950_12_05.flv*
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1517000 Oct 27 2015 20151027_161035.jpg*
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1444014 Oct 27 2015 20151027_161145.jpg*
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24576 Aug 1 2016 ANU-Nochi/
[santo@localhost ~]$

and the output from
id
in your user account.

[santo@localhost ~]$ id
uid=500(santo) gid=500(santo) groups=500(santo)

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On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 13:27:33 +0000 (UTC), santo wrote:

On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 07:09:33 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:

Need to look at some permissions, As root
ls -l /media/win_d | head -6

OK...

[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /media/win_d | head -6

total 147752
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 8 2016 $RECYCLE.BIN/
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 28258599 Dec 10 2011 1950_12_05.flv*
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1517000 Oct 27 2015 20151027_161035.jpg*
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1444014 Oct 27 2015 20151027_161145.jpg*
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24576 Aug 1 2016 ANU-Nochi/

Then run the same command in your user account.

[santo@localhost ~]$ ls -l /media/win_d | head -6
total 147752
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 8 2016 $RECYCLE.BIN/
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 28258599 Dec 10 2011 1950_12_05.flv*
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1517000 Oct 27 2015 20151027_161035.jpg*
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1444014 Oct 27 2015 20151027_161145.jpg*
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24576 Aug 1 2016 ANU-Nochi/
[santo@localhost ~]$

Well, that proves you can see files on DATA from your user account.
And leaves me at a loss as to why you cannot use Dophin to see the
same files you can see from your terminal prompt.

Hopefully, someone can help you.

It would not hurt to verify, all files in your account are owned by you.
find $HOME \( -not -user $USER -or -not -group $USER \) -exec ls -al '{}' \; That should not return anything.

Hmmm, while typing about the uid/gid; you might log into a test account,
say junk, and verify you have the same problem.

If junk has no problems looking in win_d, then it could be one of two
problems. Your santo Plasma/kde files are not consistent with the current release of Plasma/kde. I have seen that when the account is an upgrade
install of a clean install.

Yes, I know you have done a clean mga7 install, but you have a separate
/home partition which means after clean install/reboot, your first
santo login caused some code in Plasma/kde to upgrade your settings/data
to the new release. As you have already seen with the pan install,
your account is not working as well as the test/junk account.

The junk account is a clean install, not an upgrade like your santo account.

I abandoned Plasma/kde a few years ago and cannot provide the instructions
for resetting a user account so it looks like a new install. In the past
it was a simple rename of .kde and then move the app's data back into the
new kde location.

and the output from
id
in your user account.

[santo@localhost ~]$ id
uid=500(santo) gid=500(santo) groups=500(santo)

I can not remember what/where I saw something about some application
having problems when UID is less than 1000.

If it were me, I would go ahead and convert the UID/GID to above 999
just to avoid those kinds of problems in the future.

A word of caution. You better not be logged in as santo on the system
when you change santo UID/GID and change the owner/group for all santo
owned files/directories.

You would log into the junk account, su - root, then make all the changes.

Basic steps would be to create the new GID, then modify santo to have the
new GID and UID, then use find to change 500 UID, then another pass to
change 500 group to the new GID.
You then delete the old GID, and change the new GID to santo.

The above assumes you have a current backup you can read if needed,
a check list of activities and preferably have the commands needed at each step.



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On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 08:15:28 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:

It would not hurt to verify, all files in your account are owned by you.
find $HOME \( -not -user $USER -or -not -group $USER \) -exec ls -al
'{}' \;
That should not return anything

Hmmm...

[santo@localhost ~]$ find $HOME \( -not -user $USER -or -not -group $USER
\) -exec ls -al '{}' \;
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jun 25 2015 /home/santo/libudev.so.0exit -> libudev.so.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 8 2015 /home/santo/.local/share/codeina/ mozembed/127.0.0.1:+3518
total 12
drwx------ 3 santo junk 4096 Jan 29 2017 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 santo santo 4096 Jan 29 2017 ..
drwx------ 9 santo junk 4096 Jan 29 2017 Browser
total 36
drwx------ 9 santo junk 4096 Jan 29 2017 .
drwx------ 3 santo junk 4096 Jan 29 2017 ..
drwx------ 6 junk junk 4096 Jan 1 2000 browser
drwx------ 3 junk junk 4096 Jan 1 2000 defaults
drwx------ 2 junk junk 4096 Jan 1 2000 dictionaries
drwx------ 2 junk junk 4096 Jan 1 2000 fonts
drwx------ 2 junk junk 4096 Jan 1 2000 icons
drwx------ 5 junk junk 4096 Jan 1 2000 TorBrowser
drwx------ 2 junk junk 4096 Jan 29 2017 webapprt
ls: cannot open directory '/home/santo/.local/share/Trash/files/tor 1/tor- browser_en-US/Browser/dictionaries': Permission denied
find: ‘/home/santo/.local/share/Trash/files/tor 1/tor-browser_en-US/ Browser/dictionaries’: Permission denied
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36056204 Apr 21 2014 /home/santo/bin/go/gopanda2- linux-64.tar.gz

Hmmm, while typing about the uid/gid; you might log into a test account,
say junk, and verify you have the same problem.

from junk I can access Data from Dolphin...

If junk has no problems looking in win_d, then it could be one of two problems. Your santo Plasma/kde files are not consistent with the
current release of Plasma/kde. I have seen that when the account is an upgrade install of a clean install.

Yes, I know you have done a clean mga7 install, but you have a separate
/home partition which means after clean install/reboot, your first santo login caused some code in Plasma/kde to upgrade your settings/data to
the new release. As you have already seen with the pan install,
your account is not working as well as the test/junk account.

The junk account is a clean install, not an upgrade like your santo
account.

I can not remember what/where I saw something about some application
having problems when UID is less than 1000.

If it were me, I would go ahead and convert the UID/GID to above 999
just to avoid those kinds of problems in the future.

A word of caution. You better not be logged in as santo on the system
when you change santo UID/GID and change the owner/group for all santo
owned files/directories.

You would log into the junk account, su - root, then make all the
changes.

Basic steps would be to create the new GID, then modify santo to have
the new GID and UID, then use find to change 500 UID, then another pass
to change 500 group to the new GID.
You then delete the old GID, and change the new GID to santo.

The above assumes you have a current backup you can read if needed,
a check list of activities and preferably have the commands needed at
each step.

hmmm...thanks...will have to study a bit the procedure you are suggesting before I go for it...I do not remember if during installation there is
the change to set if yes maybe a new clean install where I can set UID to
1000 could help?

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On 1/12/20 3:51 AM, santo wrote:

Hi all,
I used to be able to access my data partition from Dolphin by clicking on
the HD icon at the left high corner in Mageia6 and previous version...now
it show only Mageia7.1 and the xp partition...but df command show it normally...
Not really sure what to do

[santo@localhost ~]$ df /dev/sda7
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 63G 57G 5.6G 92% /home

any suggestion is appreciated as usual...
TIA
Santo

By "left high corner," do you mean the "Places" panel? If so, then it's
not difficult to add entries to it:

Right-click on any open area of the panel, and select "add entry." (If
you happen to right-click on one of the existing entries, you won't see
"add entry." It has to be an unused spot.)

A dialog will pop up, allowing you to specify a name and the mount point
where Dolphin can find it.

I first installed Mageia 7 when it was in Cauldron. It's been a while,
nearly a year, but I do seem to remember a general Plasma update,
including Dolphin, changing my Places panel so that I had to
re-customize it to my liking. This may be what has happened to you. It's
not uncommon with Plasma. I can remember a few other such customizations having to be redone here and there after the Mageia 6 "Grand Update" of Plasma. The Friendly Folks at KDE are famous for such things.

TJ

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On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 15:01:46 +0000 (UTC), santo wrote:

On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 08:15:28 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:

It would not hurt to verify, all files in your account are owned by you.
find $HOME \( -not -user $USER -or -not -group $USER \) -exec ls -al
'{}' \;
That should not return anything

Hmmm...

[santo@localhost ~]$ find $HOME \( -not -user $USER -or -not -group $USER
\) -exec ls -al '{}' \;
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jun 25 2015 /home/santo/libudev.so.0exit -> libudev.so.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 8 2015 /home/santo/.local/share/codeina/ mozembed/127.0.0.1:+3518
total 12
drwx------ 3 santo junk 4096 Jan 29 2017 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 santo santo 4096 Jan 29 2017 ..
drwx------ 9 santo junk 4096 Jan 29 2017 Browser

All right. What you see above is because you did not use "su" correctly.

As a rule, anytime you want to change users you need to use
su - other_user_id_here

So, you need to use a root terminal to reset all files back to santo.
Log out of santo, into junk,
su - root

chown -R santo:santo /home/santo
exit
exit
Now, log out of junk, into santo and hit an up arrow or two to run the
find command again.

Hmmm, while typing about the uid/gid; you might log into a test account,
say junk, and verify you have the same problem.

from junk I can access Data from Dolphin...

Good. we now know it is a santo only problem.
Bad, we still do not know if a santo DE problem, or UID/GID problem.

hmmm...thanks...will have to study a bit the procedure you are suggesting before I go for it.

Yep, I wrote all the commands, check them 3 or more times before I attempted it.

..I do not remember if during installation there is
the change to set if yes maybe a new clean install where I can set UID to 1000 could help?

Not sure at this point what you/I are talking about.

You have a separate /home. That means that on a clean install, you have/need
to have the same UID/GID for all the users in /home. Click up a terminal
$ ls -nd /home/*
There are the UID/GID you would have to create for the first user, and
any other user seen in /home/

As a rule you would keep the UID/GID name the same between installs.

You are using Plasma/kde as your Desktop Environment (DE).
In that environment, your DE applications are storing stuff in numerous
DE/app directories. For example kmail. Because of this, it is not straight forward as deleting /home/santo, creating it, then logging in.

That would get you a "clean install" of santo, but you would not have
any of the application settings or data. :(

Since I have a multi-boot setup, I used stand alone applications.
For example using thunderbird instead of kmail. That allowed me to
delete all of my kde directories without loosing my email.

Other users like you, migrated their stuff by, renaming their $HOME
directory, create a new $HOME then copied directories/files from the
old $HOME directory.

Go ahead, take a look at the different file names between santo and junk.
as root,
updatedb
locate /home/junk > junk.lst
locate /home/santo > santo.lst
diff junk.lst santo.lst

Now, you have feel of the size of the job of coping files back into
a "clean" santo. After coping, you would also have to set UDI/GID.

Oh, yeah, please do not post the output of the above.




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On 12/1/20 7:51 pm, santo wrote:

Hi all,
I used to be able to access my data partition from Dolphin by clicking on
the HD icon at the left high corner in Mageia6 and previous version...now
it show only Mageia7.1 and the xp partition...but df command show it normally...
Not really sure what to do

[santo@localhost ~]$ df /dev/sda7
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 63G 57G 5.6G 92% /home

any suggestion is appreciated as usual...
TIA
Santo

if you mean the "Navigation Panel" with entries like 'Places" and
"Devices" then right click on "Devices" and and determine that "Show
Hidden Places" is checked

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Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:39:48 -0500, TJ wrote:

By "left high corner," do you mean the "Places" panel? If so, then it's
not difficult to add entries to it:

Right-click on any open area of the panel, and select "add entry." (If
you happen to right-click on one of the existing entries, you won't see
"add entry." It has to be an unused spot.)

I am so glad this have worked...
I opened dolphin and right clicked as you said...I clicked 'Add to
Places' and nothing seemed to have happened...no pop up windows etc...but
when I right clicked on the HD icon again I noticed that a new entry was
on the list 'Devices' I clicked on Devices and all partition appeared including Data...
:-)
Thanks a lot...
Santo

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On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 09:44:59 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:

Oh, yeah, please do not post the output of the above.

I am glad TJ suggestion worked...Definetly I would have learned a thing
or two If I had followed your instruction... but was too afraid of Mr Murphy...( anyway copied the commands and explanation on my booklet, one
never know...)
Thanks again for your patience and always available help
:-)
Santo

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 07:25:03 +0000 (UTC), santo wrote:

On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 09:44:59 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:

Oh, yeah, please do not post the output of the above.

I am glad TJ suggestion worked...

So am I.

Definetly I would have learned a thing
or two If I had followed your instruction... but was too afraid of Mr Murphy...(

I hear that. I would much rather help someone fix their system than
have that problem on mine. Murphy has improved my knowledge way more
than I would like to admit. :(

anyway copied the commands and explanation on my booklet,

In that case here are some details to add.

one never know...)

I hear where you are coming from. I find it better to make transitions
at my leisure instead of under pressure of circumstance.

All this assumes you do not already have a UID/GID of 1000 for someone
say, junk. :)

As a matter of fact, you could play around moving junk to 1001, then
move santo to 1000. Personally, you could always do new installs
with junk as the first user, then add your user account santo.

Better yet, create a santo2 with UID/GID 501, log into santo2, then log out
and practice moving santo2 from 501 to 1002.

It is really not that bad.

You could use groupmod to rename santo2 GID to santo2_o.
Create new GID santo2 as 1001, then use usermod to set UID/GID
to 1001 for santo2.

To reassign UID and GID to new values make two passes with find.
find / -path /proc -prune -o -uid old_Uid -exec echo chown new_Uid {} \;
find / -path /proc -prune -o -gid old_Gid -exec echo chown :new_Gid {} \;

real command would be something like
find / -path /proc -prune -o -uid 501 -exec echo chown 1001 {} \;
find / -path /proc -prune -o -gid 501 -exec echo chown :1001 {} \;

Start a new thread if you have problems.

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On 1/13/20 2:20 AM, santo wrote:

On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:39:48 -0500, TJ wrote:

By "left high corner," do you mean the "Places" panel? If so, then it's
not difficult to add entries to it:

Right-click on any open area of the panel, and select "add entry." (If
you happen to right-click on one of the existing entries, you won't see
"add entry." It has to be an unused spot.)

I am so glad this have worked...
I opened dolphin and right clicked as you said...I clicked 'Add to
Places' and nothing seemed to have happened...no pop up windows etc...but when I right clicked on the HD icon again I noticed that a new entry was
on the list 'Devices' I clicked on Devices and all partition appeared including Data...
:-)
Thanks a lot...
Santo

Glad I could help.

TJ

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