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Posted by jmadero at Apr 11, 2020, 4:26:24 PM

SweetHome3d Not Seeing My Data Partition in Linux
Hi All,

I've been using Linux for over 15 years and I can say this is a first. Sweet Home 3D is not seeing my main data partition. I separate /, /home, and /data, for various reasons.

lsblk output


â”œâ”€sdb5   8:21   0  29.3G  0 part /
â”œâ”€sdb6   8:22   0  24.4G  0 part /home
â”œâ”€sdb7   8:23   0 222.7G  0 part /data

SweetHome3d Open Dialog

Additionally, my shortcuts to the /data/XXXX folders within my Home Folder are all missing in SH3D. Finally, permissions are pretty standard, 770, for the data partition.

This is super bizarre. Any suggestions welcome.

Posted by dorin at Apr 13, 2020, 12:23:33 PM

Re: SweetHome3d Not Seeing My Data Partition in Linux

I've been using Linux for over 15 years

Me too. I have also separate partitions for different purpose.

Sweet Home 3D is not seeing my main data partition

Normal. All other programs act the same (Libre Office, Inkscape, kate etc.)
At start are mounted in system ONLY "/" and "/home".
All other partitions have only shortcuts in file browser.
First I need to click on it then insert the root password to mount it in the system.
For many personal reasons I don't like to use sudo.
After that I found it in file chooser (from every program) under:
Root/media/ my_user_name / partition_name
That's applicable for every new reboot or boot.
At least that's the way I use my linux systems.
I use debian with KDE.
Hope is useful.
P.S. An general advice: DON'T use the repository version.
Use the installer version from this site.
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Posted by UbuntuBirdy at Apr 13, 2020, 2:22:11 PM

Re: SweetHome3d Not Seeing My Data Partition in Linux
I'm using Linux (Ubuntu) only since 12 years, so you guys are the pros. But I solved this problem with "systemd":

systemd man page.
I put it in the fstab so a mount point looks like this:

/home/"user"/music nfs nfsvers=4,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=900,users,rw 0 0

This is for a NAS via nfs, but it works also for partitions.

The mount point is not mounted (this saves you booting time) until you access it, but all the programs can do that.

Perhaps this could be a solution for you...
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Pascal

SH3D 6.6 / Ubuntu 22.04 (Mainline-Kernel) / Radeon RX580 / Ryzen 7 5800x

Posted by jmadero at Apr 15, 2020, 8:08:15 PM

Re: SweetHome3d Not Seeing My Data Partition in Linux
It is mounted. LibreOffice and every other application sees the mount and I have permissions to access. It's literally just Sweet Home 3d. It's an EXT4 partition.

Posted by UbuntuBirdy at Apr 15, 2020, 8:40:23 PM

Re: SweetHome3d Not Seeing My Data Partition in Linux
My partitions, NAS, server, RaspberryPi, all mounted with systemd the way I wrote it in my last post, are all accessible with Sweet Home 3D without any restrictions. And these are Ext4, FAT or NTFS partitions.
So, for me systemd is the one and only thing to mount with (also because of many other options and features).
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Pascal

SH3D 6.6 / Ubuntu 22.04 (Mainline-Kernel) / Radeon RX580 / Ryzen 7 5800x

Posted by jmadero at Apr 15, 2020, 8:44:44 PM

Re: SweetHome3d Not Seeing My Data Partition in Linux
Thought that some additional details could help:

FSTAB
UUID=06461143-2fd0-4dee-b4cd-826690435ec5 /data ext4 defaults 0 2

View from LibreOffice Dialog:

View from Sweet Home Dialog:

As can be seen, "/data" is just entirely missing from Sweet Home Dialog....it's extremely bizarre. I can see /data in LibreOffice and access it without a hitch.

Posted by jmadero at Apr 15, 2020, 8:46:20 PM

Re: SweetHome3d Not Seeing My Data Partition in Linux
And of course the image option didn't work:
LibreOffice: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rL-54REVMHg1ITCucFE8vwcN46prj37E

Sweet Home: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dn0TPggTGaZjsBwqmpto7mvZM27WxpkE

Posted by UbuntuBirdy at Apr 15, 2020, 10:09:06 PM

Re: SweetHome3d Not Seeing My Data Partition in Linux
and what's in the "mnt" folder?
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Pascal

SH3D 6.6 / Ubuntu 22.04 (Mainline-Kernel) / Radeon RX580 / Ryzen 7 5800x

Posted by jmadero at Apr 16, 2020, 1:29:01 AM

Re: SweetHome3d Not Seeing My Data Partition in Linux
/mnt/Synology
/mnt/Windows

(two other shares in my FSTAB)

Posted by UbuntuBirdy at Apr 16, 2020, 4:35:00 AM

Re: SweetHome3d Not Seeing My Data Partition in Linux
Ok, other idea: normally you need root rights to access any folder or file in the root directory (they are read-only). So, could this be the reason for your issue?
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Pascal

SH3D 6.6 / Ubuntu 22.04 (Mainline-Kernel) / Radeon RX580 / Ryzen 7 5800x

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