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Thread: GUI file managers mount as read only

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    GUI file managers mount as read only

    I switched to arch linux a bit ago. GUI file managers like nautilus or thunar sometimes go wacko and mount my sd card or usb's as read only. I have to mount it manually through the terminal via:
    Code:
    sudo mount /dev/sd<letter><number> /mnt/USB
    this fixes it and mounts it as read/write.

    This does not happen as far as i know in ubuntu. I am assuming there is some library that ubuntu has by default that is not yet on my arch. I just dont know what that library is.

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    Re: GUI file managers mount as read only

    If you can get it to write to the partition then it's not lacking some library (ntfs-3g for ntfs partitions comes to mind as a relevant situation.) My guess is that it probably mounts it as Root owned without write permissions for others. Unfortunately without familiarity with Arch I can't give you much help other than pointing you to ArchWirki's section on what I thing is relevant to your (udisks2 or udisk) problem.

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    Re: GUI file managers mount as read only

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