When we launch Dolphin, we see a pane on left side listing both mounted and unmounted partitions. If I click on any partition, I can view it but I do not get permission to write to that.

As a regular user who is the only user for this PC, how can I set it up so that it gets mounted on clicking with full permission?

  • @voracreadOP
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    21 month ago

    I want to be able to browse any partition on my desktop if is mine or otherwise. Is there a way to do it?

    In PCLinuxOS it mounts to /media. But even if I change the ownership of /media to me, it still gets mounted as root.

    I keep multiple distros across 3 to 4 hard disks. Windows partitions both NTFS and FAT get mounted with rw while ext ones go root. Even a data partition.

    • Björn Tantau
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      31 month ago

      Then you’ll have to give yourself ownership of the files on the ext partitions. The permissions of the mount point don’t factor into this. That’s just how Linux permissions work. The permissions are in the file system and not set during mount.

      • @voracreadOP
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        01 month ago

        I have read just now that if I give myself ownership of a special file called ‘.’ (just the dot without quotation marks) in the partition I could achieve this. I seem to have succeeded for now in this. I will use it for sometime and see how it goes. This at least solves the problem of using a data partition for backup.

        • Björn Tantau
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          41 month ago

          Great!

          . is the folder you’re currently in. And .. is the parent folder.

          • @voracreadOP
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            11 month ago

            Well that is how it was mentioned in the post on Super User forum. It has worked out for me.

        • @AndrewZabar
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          11 month ago

          I have read just now that if I give myself ownership of a special file called ‘.’ (just the dot without quotation marks) in the partition I could achieve this

          Wow… just.
          Also, reads like an AI wrote it.

            • @AndrewZabar
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              11 month ago

              Because I think the level of understanding you’re at, you shouldn’t be tinkering with stuff. You could wind up doing more harm than good. Sorry for the snark, it seemed amusing.