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SylviaAmbermoon

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[SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

How do I change permissions so I can write to my new drive. Here is my fstab. It's sdd1. Anyone have a specific wiki link perhaps?

# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda3
UUID=8d31b566-ec34-494b-ac9e-1f99aacff778       /               ext4            rw,relatime     0 1

# /dev/sda1
UUID=68CD-03D8          /boot           vfat            rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro   0 2

# /dev/sda4
UUID=a069731e-c0df-4da1-9a5b-c3cfd55fe46d       /home           ext4            rw,relatime     0 2

# /dev/sda2
UUID=64e763f7-1da9-4b06-8d30-278e124cc39d       none            swap            defaults        0 0

# /dev/sdd1
UUID=3583a7e4-7cc5-4723-80b7-b21280928966       /run/media/sylvia/3583a7e4-7cc5-4723-80b7-b21280928966          ext4            rw,relatime     0 0

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iwuvkittens

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

what do you mean you cant write to it?

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SylviaAmbermoon

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

what do you mean you cant write to it?

I don't have permissions to write to it's folders in the gui. I assume I could probably write to it with sudo

i lose permissions to write when I get to /run/media

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

which file manager?

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SylviaAmbermoon

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

which file manager?

Dolphin

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iwuvkittens

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

do you have a polkit installed like polkit-kde-agent it will prompt you when trying to do something that requires elevated privileges

i think dolphin requires this extension

to manage root owned files

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SylviaAmbermoon

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

do you have a polkit installed like polkit-kde-agent it will prompt you when trying to do something that requires elevated privileges

I don't believe I do, I haven't heard of a polkit yet

FWIW This is going to be a steam library only drive

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

install kio-admin and see if it werks

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SylviaAmbermoon

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

install kio-admin and see if it werks

Doesn't seem to have done anything. Seems like there is something wrong with my /run/media directory. It goes wrong there, can't edit permissions in the properties either

Permissions are set to nfsnobody on that folder

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

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iwuvkittens

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

install kio-admin and see if it werks

Doesn't seem to have done anything. Seems like there is something wrong with my /run/media directory. It goes wrong there, can't edit permissions in the properties either

Permissions are set to nfsnobody on that folder

hmm didnt u mount it as ext4 though

/run/media or /run/media/*/insertuuidhere

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SylviaAmbermoon

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

install kio-admin and see if it werks

Doesn't seem to have done anything. Seems like there is something wrong with my /run/media directory. It goes wrong there, can't edit permissions in the properties either

Permissions are set to nfsnobody on that folder

hmm didnt u mount it as ext4 though

I partitioned it as ext4 with gparted, and it should be set to ext4 in fstab as said above

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

see the image i sent

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SylviaAmbermoon

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

see the image i sent

Image is broken... Google just shows a kiwi ?

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

http://0x0.st/KiwI.png <-- this

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solskog

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

/run/
A "tmpfs" file system for system packages to place runtime data, socket files, and similar. This directory is flushed on boot, and generally writable for privileged programs only. Always writable.

How about change /etc/fstab to another mount point like

# /dev/sdd1
UUID=3583a7e4-7cc5-4723-80b7-b21280928966       /home/media/sylvia        ext4            rw,relatime     0 0

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iwuvkittens

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

iirc dolphin automounts to /run/media

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SylviaAmbermoon

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

/run/
A "tmpfs" file system for system packages to place runtime data, socket files, and similar. This directory is flushed on boot, and generally writable for privileged programs only. Always writable.

How about change /etc/fstab to another mount point like

# /dev/sdd1
UUID=3583a7e4-7cc5-4723-80b7-b21280928966       /home/media/sylvia        ext4            rw,relatime     0 0

This caused it to say that the directories /home/media/sylvia do not exist. Perhaps I need to make the directories prior to booting it ?

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

This caused it to say that the directories /home/media/sylvia do not exist. Perhaps I need to make the directories prior to booting it ?

Yes.

iwuvkittens

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

i don't believe changing the mount location will change anything in your situation, dolphin automounts to /run/media/usernamehere additionally because of this you do not need an fstab entry

try opening dolphin with:

dolphin admin:///

http://0x0.st/Kixj.png

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SylviaAmbermoon

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

i don't believe changing the mount location will change anything in your situation, dolphin automounts to /run/media/usernamehere additionally because of this you do not need an fstab entry

try opening dolphin with:

dolphin admin:///

I've been trying that sorry for not stating, it says it's command not found in terminal and says it's not valid in dolphins text bar

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iwuvkittens

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

i don't believe changing the mount location will change anything in your situation, dolphin automounts to /run/media/usernamehere additionally because of this you do not need an fstab entry

try opening dolphin with:

dolphin admin:///

I've been trying that sorry for not stating, it says it's command not found in terminal and says it's not valid in dolphins text bar

you install kio-admin with:

sudo pacman -S kio-admin

and then run from your terminal, make sure to close any existing dolphin instances:

dolphin admin:///

command not found indicates that dolphin as a whole is not installed? could you clarify with an image or output

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SylviaAmbermoon

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

i don't believe changing the mount location will change anything in your situation, dolphin automounts to /run/media/usernamehere additionally because of this you do not need an fstab entry

try opening dolphin with:

dolphin admin:///

I've been trying that sorry for not stating, it says it's command not found in terminal and says it's not valid in dolphins text bar

you install kio-admin with:

sudo pacman -S kio-admin

and then run from your terminal, make sure to close any existing dolphin instances:

dolphin admin:///

command not found indicates that dolphin as a whole is not installed? could you clarify with an image or output

reinstalling dolphin via pacman fixed command not found

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SylviaAmbermoon

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

I've been trying that sorry for not stating, it says it's command not found in terminal and says it's not valid in dolphins text bar

you install kio-admin with:

dolphin admin:///

and then run from your terminal, make sure to close any existing dolphin instances:

sudo pacman -S kio-admin

command not found indicates that dolphin as a whole is not installed? could you clarify with an image or output

reinstalling dolphin via pacman fixed command not found

this allows me to edit the directory with dolphin, however my issue is the permissions of the directories themselves as steam will not accept it without the privileges

dolphin admin:///

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solskog

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Re: [SOLVED] New ext4 drive automounted in fstab, no write permissions

Dolphin does not mount devices directly; the actual automounting is handled by udisks2. By default, when you plug in a USB drive, udisks2 mounts it under /run/media/$USER/<LABEL-or-UUID>. For a permanent hard drive, it is better to configure /etc/fstab with a mount point outside of /run/.