I am using debian stretch and gnome.
When I plug in a usb external drive with four partitions (including ext4,
ntfs, fat32) they are mounted automatically, but when I click on any of
them in files or dolphin, this message is received: The location could not
be displayed. You do not have the permissions..."
I am able to read these files as root. Even in the command line, however,
a normal user can only see: Permission denied.
Trying to mount by label:
# mount Label=<label> /mnt/<mountpoint>
I see "special device <label> does not exist
I am able to mount any of them with a simple "mount /dev/sdcX
/mnt/<mountpoint>, and they are accessible. They are not shown
automatically on dolphin, although Iall files are visible when I navigate
to the mountpoint and click in files or dolphin.
I tried changing permissions of /media. Not solved.
an NTFS partition was not mountable unless dismounted from the automatic
mount point; as far as I can see, this is not the case for vfat or ext4
partitions.
I did copy a udev rule for setting permissions---something above my level
of understanding, however. If anything, the situation was worse.
It has been very frustrating to google for 2 hours on this probably very
simple problem. I think the solution is just to mount them manually.
Still, it would be helpful to automount them, or mount via fstab. I have
not had success mouting by label, and one does not know in advance whether
some usb flash drive might preempt these drive designations.
BTW I am pleased to be running a Debian system again after some years. It
took a good deal of work, though, to get it set up on an iMac with a
broadcom wifi adaptor!
Alan Davis
--
[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily
available in books. …The value of a college education is not the
learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
---Albert Einstein
"Sweet instruments hung up in cases. . . keep their sounds to themselves."
---Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_
