Hi Gottfried, On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 7:38 AM Gottfried <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive, > because it needs root rights.
Mounting hard drives is generally a privileged operation, but a lot of people use external storage. I believe Gnome can make such storage available to a user who is logged in. Have you looked into gvfs? [1] FUSE stands for "file system in user space." [2] Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/kn-in/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/administering_the_system_using_the_gnome_desktop_environment/managing-storage-volumes-in-gnome_administering-the-system-using-the-gnome-desktop-environment [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
