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?

  • @voracreadOPEnglish
    0•1 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
      4•1 month ago

      Great!

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

      • @voracreadOPEnglish
        1•1 month ago

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

    • @AndrewZabar
      1•1 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
          1•1 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.