Re: [gcmd-usr] Need help on Ubuntu 20.04

[Greg]

Hi Ken,

    Thanks for the detailed e-mail.. I struggle when I have to do 
things out of the ordinary on linux. My drives are mounted through 
Fstab. I have been running it this way for well over 15 years and it has 
served me well. Here is a copy and paste of my fstab.

# / was on /dev/sde4 during installation
UUID=68047441-d694-4eac-a885-97a80113738a /               ext4 
errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot was on /dev/sde2 during installation
UUID=b61d9c4e-7889-4202-bd20-c1a1f9e58629 /boot           ext4 
defaults        0       2
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sde1 during installation
UUID=DD3D-010F  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
# /video1 was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=bca503ec-434e-46a9-91f1-950fa2af6c2a /video1         ext4 
defaults        0       2
# /video2 was on /dev/sdc1 during installation
UUID=e8991822-93a7-4e3f-980f-3d1c522c5134 /video2         ext4 
defaults        0       2
# /video3 was on /dev/sdg1 during installation
UUID=cfd43643-335a-45e9-ba83-532b38ecd859 /video3         ext4 
defaults        0       2
# /video4 was on /dev/sdi1 during installation
UUID=6c905cc7-b8d8-4747-9be3-f728005aa4e0 /video4         ext4 
defaults        0       2
# /video5 was on /dev/sde5 during installation
UUID=df618a78-761e-444e-a38b-50ac5b1eb7de /video5         ext4 
defaults        0       2
# /video6 was on /dev/sdf1 during installation
UUID=a9bc9128-3569-4c93-9106-2df70ee17b7e /video6         ext4 
defaults        0       2
# /video7 was on /dev/sdh1 during installation
UUID=b57106e5-3767-4c37-8944-7c9d823acd2e /video7         ext4 
defaults        0       2
# /video8 was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=7f85bb49-8e17-421f-a2c6-6614e9bf22f2 /video8         ext4 
defaults        0       2
# /video9 was on /dev/sdj1 during installation
UUID=6ab3b7b8-aa93-4dbc-9f24-7123b9108610 /video9         ext4 
defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sde3 during installation
UUID=3c74c1b1-7654-4d5f-aa13-6011041b4289 none            swap 
sw              0       0

It runs 24/7.. All nine drives are on the same computer,nothing too 
extreme...

I do have the drives bookmarked and that works ok,but not as nice as the 
devices buttons.. I did get G-C working using devices,but as soon as I 
quit the program it lost all the mappings.. When I read you were working 
on a snap for GC I figured that was the answer. I tried several other 
commander type programs,but they aren't GC..

Thanks again, Greg



On 3/8/21 3:38 PM, kht-lists via gcmd-users wrote:
> Hello Greg,
>
> How are you sharing the drives in your media server (nfs, samba, something 
> else)? I have a somewhat similar situation and this is how I handle it.
>
> I have 3 data servers. Each one has drives in pairs which I keep mirrored. The "a" drives 
> in each pair are exported with nfs. The b drive in each pair is the backup. As I do not need access 
> to the data at all times, I only bring up a sever when I need it.  This adds a little wrinkle which 
> you might not have. If I mount an nfs export from the Mate desktop (on CentOS 7 in this case) the 
> file managment system "caja" goes berserk if the server shuts down with the mfs export 
> still mounted. I therefor have server-on and server-off scripts which I run as needed.
>
> On my CentOS workstation I have the following directory structure to access the 
> server data:
>
> /data/
> /data/servers/
> /data/servers/data14.1/
> /data/servers/data14.2/
> /data/servers/data14.3/
> /data/servers/data18.1/
> /data/servers/data18.2/
> /data/servers/data22.1/
> /data/servers/data22.2/
>
> These are the mount points for drive 1a on server t14, 2a on server t14 etc.  
> Here is the script to mount server t14:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> sudo mount t14:/media/data14.1a /data/_servers/data14.1
> sudo mount t14:/media/data14.2a /data/_servers/data14.2
> sudo mount t14:/media/data14.3a /data/_servers/data14.3
> echo mounting finished
> sleep 10
> exit
>
> And the unmount script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> sudo umount --force -vvv /data/_servers/data14.1
> sudo umount --force -vvv /data/_servers/data14.2
> sudo umount --force -vvv /data/_servers/data14.3
> echo un-mounting finished
> sleep 10
> exit
>
> You could create a shortcut in Gnome-Commander to access the top of the mount tree 
> /data/servers or even a shortcut for each drive. As g-c is not attempting to make the 
> connection - and thus not using gnome-vfs - I would not expect any issues. This is not 
> quite as handy as "device" buttons but...
>
> If your media server is on-line essentially full time you might wish to look 
> into autofs. It will automatically mount nfs exports when accessed. However, I 
> have had bad luck using it when the servers are not on-line.
>
> I have given myself NOPASSWD access to the sudo mount and umount commands in 
> visudo so I am not bothered by being asked for a password each time I run a 
> script. Ask if you need help with that.  If you are using Samba (smb) to share 
> the drives you could probably setup something similar on your Ubuntu 20.04 
> machine. It has been a while since I have done that.
>
> Ken
>
> I don't have a Swiss bank account but I do have a Swiss email address :-)
>
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>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Monday, March 8, 2021 10:06 AM, Greg <gregl@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the advice. I may take me a while to try them.. The devices I
> > am trying mount are  nine  Hard drives,each one is named Video 1-Video9.
> > This is on my media server.. I hope I can get it to work. I have
> > resisted up grading to Ubuntu 20.04,because of GC. If I can't get it
> > going,I may return to Ubuntu 18.04.. I have tried several commander type
> > file managers,but nothing compares to GC..
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions..
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > On 3/7/21 4:43 PM, mi wrote:
> >
> > > I'm also misusing the device buttons as graphical bookmarks by creating 
> > > 'pseudo-devices', which means, instead of the previous mount command, i'll 
> > > insert into the 'device' field just a
> > >
> > > > /dev/null && cd
> > > and it will change directory into what is configured as (not really a) 
> > > mountpoint.
> > > For example, insert '/tmp' there and you'll have a fast switch to the temp 
> > > folder.
> > >
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