Not able to mount drive through KDE plasma

acsffttatftc · 2023-09-23 12:25:19

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.

Im quite an average user for linux so please have patience with me. Ask any questions and ill try to answer as well as i can.

ExCalicock · 2023-09-23 13:19:28

Hey and welcome here,
you're not the only one facing issues mounting drives and partition.
This issue started for a lot of users few days ago and there are few threads opened regarding the issue.
However, there's a temporary workaround for this (while hopefull this issue get fixed somehow) by manually mounting your drive

Start off by plugging USB to your desktop then open terminal and type

 sudo fdisk -l

this will show the currently plugged in drives (check which one is the usb drive)

Create a folder somewhere on your system (location not necessary, could be on desktop or somewhere else) then type the following command:

 sudo mount /dev/sdX path/to/folder

X is the character next to the sd , could be a,b,c or whatever

For example if you create a folder named Drive12 on Desktop and the usb drive is shown as sdb in fdisk, type

 
cd Desktop
sudo mount /dev/sdb Drive12

Last edited by ExCalicock (2023-09-23 13:22:47)

seth · 2023-09-23 15:21:45

Is the drive in question formatted NTFS?

acsffttatftc · 2023-09-25 11:04:05

seth wrote:

Is the drive in question formatted NTFS?

Yes

seth · 2023-09-25 13:00:04

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

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Not able to mount drive through KDE plasma

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