I would like to know how to access hdd's and partitions using AntiX. I only can access the partition where I have AntiX installed.

I have computer with two physically separated hard disk drives. In the first one I have Windows 7 64-bit and in the second hard disk drive I have PCLOS KDE 64-bit and AntiX 13.2 64-bit.

Using PCLOS KDE I can access the first hard disk drive as well the partitions of the second hard disk drive where I have the two Linux. But with AntiX I can't see any contents in partitions on both hard disk drives, except its own one. I guess this is a security provision in AntiX, but I haven't figure it out how to resolve it. Thank you.

try this:

open up spacefm filemanager. In the Devices menu, select Show>Internal Partitions

and see if things show up.

dolphin_oracle wrote:try this:

open up spacefm filemanager. In the Devices menu, select Show>Internal Partitions

and see if things show up.

I tried that but I got an error indicating that the device (for example /dev/sda2) is not removable. I also tried to mount it but it didn't work, the same error appeared. I clearly see that my fixed volumes are not mounted, except the partition in my second hard drive where I have AntiX 13.2. I tried: devices, settings, auto mount, mount volumes.

In spacefm, if you open a"root window", and then in the root window do as D.O. suggested, I think it will avoid the errors.

thriftee wrote:In spacefm, if you open a"root window", and then in the root window do as D.O. suggested, I think it will avoid the errors.

In spacefm I opened a"root window" and directly in it I cuold navigate everywhere in mi PC and I saw all files in folders. All errors were avoided. But I didn't apply the route that D.O. suggested. Is this the"correct" way to accomplish it?

LOL, I'm not the person to answer that!

I'm no linux guru, LOL. I just had the same problem myself and found that it worked with a root window, so that's what I've been doing since then, because my machines have been in a testing state where new OS's get added or removed weekly, etc.

I'll be interested to hear if there is a better way. The only one I can think of would be to add the partition to the fstab file in / etc if you are going to access it all the time.

Well, It works, and since my original question was answered I will mark this thread as SOLVED. Thank you.

thriftee wrote:In spacefm, if you open a"root window", and then in the root window do as D.O. suggested, I think it will avoid the errors.

SpaceFM doesn't seem to pop up the dialog box asking for the root/sudo password when admin privileges are needed to perform the operation such as mounting a partition from within the file manager. PCManfm for example does this.

if you right click a partition, there is a"root" submenu", with another set of mount and unmount commands.

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on auto-mounting shared partitions. I've used the technique under other distros, including antiX, without a problem.