I need help please. I tried to ask about this last week and people did not seem to get what I was asking… How do I add the rest of my drives to Dolphin?
Right now they are showing up under “Devices” but this is an ever loving PITA…
I have to keep on entering my password, I can’t copy anything to them or even copy something from them without getting a message saying I am not the owner…
I tried to ask last week while trying to get some info on the topic how to add Drives to an install of OM, in mint they are automatically detected and it is business as usual.
In Fedora it was just as much a pain to try and get my drives working… I had to add everything to /mnt/… inside the fstab file…
The person trying to help said “I do not quite understand what you are asking”…
I have tried searching topics like, “adding hard drives”, “adding SSD’s” “how to add internal drives” and the likes but I get nothing relevant to what I need…
So, again, can someone please point me in the right direction?
I have 4 other drives that need to be working at all times, as I edit a lot of video graphic material to and from them.
In relation to mounting drives, you may find KDE Partition Manager a lot easier, and since you’re using KDE, it is already installed. It will directly edit the fstab file according to your parameters. I agree with @rugyada that it is likely a permissions issue with the user ID. I had a similar problem, where I had to use chown to modify the permission of the drive mounted as a folder in my home directory.
If you don’t know your user name, run this in the terminal:
echo $USER
As an example of what I did, where “myid” would stand for my actual user name and FOLDER represents the directory I want to modify:
sudo chown -R myid:myid FOLDER
This would set ownership to me for the directory and all the folders and files in the directory.
Permission issues like this can happen when the drive you are trying to use was not initialized/formatted by the OS you are currently on. They belong to the user from wherever you first used them, which sounds like Mint, so the only way to mount them is to use root password. Root owned directories are read-only for normal users.
chown command as stated by the last person should fix it for you, and automounting is done with the /etc/fstab file.
I’m not sure how the issue arrives. In my own previous cases, I had migrated from various Linux distributions in the past and never had an issue having to chown my added drives, but when I came to OMLx, I did. I always use the same username to make migration easier. Nevertheless, I’m sure you are right.
However, I still suggest KDE Partition Manager for setting up drives and mount points (since it edits fstab anyway). FStab is easy if you know everything, but it isn’t easy for some users.
Just to clear up some confusion, Yes, the drives come from Mint.
I will look at the resources shared.
My user password IS the root password, this is a home PC and as such does not require a user and an admin. Even with my password every time I click back on the drive I have already authorized I need to reenter my password, I can not keep doing this as it will make operations tedious.
I can not afford to loose my data, If Partition manager is going to wipe my data I will not be able to use this method.
In Fedora I had to create physical mount points with the UUID of the drives inside fstab.
This is why I was asking how OM handles this. I have 4 drives that need to show up like normal drives with full access.
Thank you all for commenting, let me work through some of the provided material and I will revert back.
Hi guys, This will not work, I do not need to (and can’t afford to) create a new partition, I need to know how to get my drives mounted so that they show up as normal drives. I have info on the drives that I can’t loose, the partitions are already formatted in the appropriate file system…
Ok, thanks Lee, let me see how to do this. It sounds much like I had to do in Fedora.
I just wish there was an “easier” way in which this could be done.
@CharlesGibbsNam You could start with the user id and group id to get the permissions right. I had to do this too, because I have a bunch of drives with files and folders on them that have different permissions on them. I cannot just do a blanket chown of these, because some of them are from Windows.
I know that the devs have their reasons for not making the userid and groupid 1000, but can’t say I agree with it.
Note: I reply to a specific member, but my posts almost always show just a regular reply. I don’t understand what it happening there.
Things need to be secure, I understand this, but having it be this hard to do is what makes it hard for others too. Anyway… I need to brush up on something that I have not done for a long time to get these drives in, so away I go to do some reading.
No problem! I wish I could do it for you, lol, but I haven’t figured out how to reach through the screen. It really is easy. The first part of the guide that I linked is relaly what you need to just let you know how to mount an already formatted drive. I do this all the time in systems that I work with. Reformatting is not required.
You have “Reply” to the specific post and user, and have the "Reply" blue-ish button at the bottom of the discussion.
Also if you quote some words of the post you are replying to it makes even more clear.
Hope it helps.
@rugyada On this one, I am replying directly to your post and not using the blue reply button. It even shows you at the top left of the box I am typing in. Let’s see if it works. It may or may not.
From what I see after, it looks like I used the blue reply button, but I did not. Strange. Maybe you see it and I do not.
