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bsld

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Registered: 2016-05-29

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How to mount my NTFS partitions without root permissions using SpaceFM

When I launch SpaceFM with root permission on the drives tab ("Show Devices") it displays me all possible drives that can be mounted and I can mount them. However when I launch the non-root version of the file manager - it displays only my USB and optical devices.

I tried what suggested here - i.e. adding allowed_internal_devices = * in /etc/udevil/udevil.conf but it didn't change nothing.

Here is what devices are shown with normal user:

And here is what devices are shown with the application launched as root:

My biggest problem with that setup is that my ntfs partitions will be mounted with root permission and that is a complication when I want to modify the files in them with non-root applications.

Any help will be appreciated.

Maybe the problems narrows down to udev actually. Look here. It uses this to detect the volumes. But still I have no clue on how to make this udev detect my partitions without root permissions or whatever.

Last edited by bsld (2016-09-01 17:40:58)