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midian

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Registered: 2019-02-21

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[solved] Can't browse usb drive in Nautilus anymore

After updating various packages today (systemd, gvfs...) I noticed nautilus won't let me browse my usb drive anymore. When i try to open the drive it says:

Unable to access "USB": mount option 'prealloc' is not allowed

Already tried rebooting and no errors in dmesg... what should I do?

Last edited by midian (2023-09-21 11:08:55)

V1del

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Re: [solved] Can't browse usb drive in Nautilus anymore

What filesystem? udisks2 and  libblockdev got a larger update. It's likely defaulting to options for ntfs3 while you still have ntfs-3g installed, you need to set up a mount_options.conf with options that are only valid for ntfs-3g or remove ntfs-3g in favor of ntfs3: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Udisks … nt_options

midian

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Registered: 2019-02-21

Posts: 44

Re: [solved] Can't browse usb drive in Nautilus anymore

Thanks for your reply. Yes it's ntfs. I tried uninstalling ntfs-3g but I got the same error. Since you mentioned mount_options.conf I remembered I added the options from https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS#udisks_support which include prealloc. Removing them fixed my issue.

edit: ntfs-3g was installed by testdisk, so unfortunately i also had to install testdisk...

Last edited by midian (2023-09-21 14:35:04)