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kabadaba

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[SOLVED] gnome-disks error mounting filesystem (udisks-error-quark, 4)

i want to mount/format my second hard disk but when i try doing it with gnome or any other app always gives me an error that it isn't authorized to perform operation, i am pretty new to arch and linux and im using hyprland wm. Any help is appreciated!

Last edited by kabadaba (2025-11-22 15:29:43)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] gnome-disks error mounting filesystem (udisks-error-quark, 4)

i want to mount/format

You cannot mount a partition w/o filesystem and you cannot format (mkfs) a partition w/ a mounted filesystem
Post the output of

lsblk -f

and specify what you actually want to do with what partition.

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kabadaba

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Re: [SOLVED] gnome-disks error mounting filesystem (udisks-error-quark, 4)

NAME   FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda                                                                           
├─sda1 vfat   FAT32       B678-598E                             874.8M    14% /boot
└─sda2 btrfs              4e975c5d-0cdc-481a-b69e-5fafc8ad9d1b  101.6G    13% /
sdb    ext4   1.0         57bb2869-a1f6-4f9b-abef-96f4b2328bda               
zram0  swap   1     zram0 d7accbcf-7ac8-466b-8f26-1c53acf86de1                [SWAP]

I want to be able to use my second drive (sdb) cuz my main disk doesnt have alot of space
sorry if im misunderstanding what ur saying cuz english isnt my first language + im dumb when it comes to understanding what someone wants me to do overall

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] gnome-disks error mounting filesystem (udisks-error-quark, 4)

cuz english isnt my first language

https://deepl.com/

Can you

udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb

?
(And if not, what error do you get?)

nb. that you've created a FS on the unpartitioned disk - that's not "wrong" but rather uncommon.

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kabadaba

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Re: [SOLVED] gnome-disks error mounting filesystem (udisks-error-quark, 4)

tysm actually saved like hours of googling cuz i was going down the gnome disks rabbithole thinking there wasnt any other solution

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] gnome-disks error mounting filesystem (udisks-error-quark, 4)

https://man.archlinux.org/man/gnome-disks.1 is NOT a tool to mount anything - using udisks isn't another solution, it's the common one.
Multiple GUI filemanagers and little desktop widgets will do pretty much the same.

https://apps.gnome.org/de/DiskUtility/ will most likely require some UID0 leverage like polkit to gain permissions on the device.

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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