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acsffttatftc

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Registered: 2023-07-25

Posts: 12

Not able to mount drive through KDE plasma

Hi, so i use this USB hard drive on many different devices including my arch desktop. I usually plug it in and then just mount it using the KDE desktop. This method has worked for me for a while now but yesterday it suddenly stopped working. Maybe its after an update i did? Trying to click "Mount and Open" and it will fail to do so. If i try to do it subsequent times there is no response at all. I then tried to actually use the mount command and it surprisingly works fine. Im able to look at everything in the drive when mounting through that method.

The drive itself is a 4tb usb drive. It is running ntfs because i need to use it on windows as well but this has not really been a problem to me before so i dont know.

Please ask questions, i will try to answer as good as i can.

walkingrobot

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Registered: 2015-03-26

Posts: 15

Re: Not able to mount drive through KDE plasma

Have you read the wiki?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Udisks

As I recall I needed udiaks and a polkit rule. The wiki explains this.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,089

Re: Not able to mount drive through KDE plasma

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p2122577

There're a lot of recent post suggesting that there's either a bug in ntfs3 or is starts revealing a but in ntfs-3g about a dirty FS.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p2123842 indicates teh FS is actually clean so I rather suspect a bug in ntfs3

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