Hal mounts only 1 out of 2 partitions.

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 15:41 +0200, George Billios wrote:
> Hello, I use hal 0.4.1 and there is a problem with my external hd driver.
> It has two partitions, both vfat. When I plug it in, hotplug
> recognises it, udev creates two new block devices /dev/sda1 and
> /dev/sda2 but hal creates a mount point only for the second partition.
...
> Nov  9 15:01:50 CPC464 fstab-sync[5694]: added mount point
> /media/__A____6__S for /dev/sda2
> 
> 
> If I run hal-device-manager I see that the second partition is
> recognised as having fstype vfat, fsusage filesystem and fsversion
> FAT32 and the block device /dev/sda2, while for /dev/sda1 it says that
> is has fstype msdos_partition_table (!!!), fsusage partitiontable and
> blank fsversion.
> Also the volume table has this funny name, while under windows the
> second partition has as name "common" and the first one "backup".

If possible, please shutdown hald and run:
  hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes

from the command line and post the output. This should contain some
useful information.

Thanks,
Kay

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