JUST FOUND THE CORRECT WAY!!! i think (don`t have proof) that the default hal policy`s for volume.ignore where probable set to false by default on Fedora core 5 and 6. and changed to TRUE for fedora core 7. thus making it useless to remove this policy: 99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi because that also contains the TRUE value in it. a better way to bypass this annoying issue is again to open up that file and edit it. the exact steps i did: nano /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99- redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi than find: <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge> change it to: <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge> be aware that those policy`s are probably overwritten again once there is a package update containing those policy`s (hal package i think) so i have all my partitions now :D thanx alot for the help and i sure hope that this post will help alot of other peoples aswell. i will also post this on the fedoraforum. Mark. <div>2007/3/27, Mark <<a href="mailto:markg85@gmail.com">markg85@gmail.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> that will do. do you (or anyone else) know of a way to change the value of volume.ignore to false as default for everything? cause i really don`t like it that the users (me in this case) have to do this by hand.. and if i add another hard drive i will have to add another line in that rc.local file.. it`s simply not good <div>2007/3/27, Ashley M. Kirchner <<a href="mailto:ashley@pcraft.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ashley@pcraft.com </a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Mark wrote: > oke, i have it working now. > the line i used: > > hal-set-property --udi > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_BCFCDE7DFCDE30FE --key > volume.ignore --bool false > > but now a more permenent solution? something that is still working > after a computer reboots.. How about sticking that line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local ? -- W | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:<a href="mailto:ashley@pcraft.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ashley@pcraft.com </a>> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / Websmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Imaging . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 <a href="http://www.pcraft.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.pcraft.com </a> ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote> </div></div> </blockquote></div>