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Thomas Gläßle edited this page Feb 21, 2019 · 5 revisions

Permissions

Problem: I don't have permissions to mount/unmount/unlock a device.

Solution: See Permissions.

NTFS: read-only

Problem: I can't modify files on my NTFS device.

Solution: Please install the ntfs-3g driver.

Mount directories not reused

Problem: Directories created by auto mount don't get deleted at shutdown, drives will be mounted to numbered directories next time (#104)

Solution: This can't be fixed from udiskie: udiskie is a simple userspace client for udisks and does not have the permissions to delete the old directories or define the mount location. This should be fixed in udisks.

Workaround: Make /media a tmpfs directory, so its contents will get deleted at every reboot. Add the following line to /etc/fstab: tmpfs /media tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=1M 0 0

Long delay before mounting

Problem: If there is a significant (30s-60s or more) delay before mounting devices, it could be due to libnotify trying to start a notification daemon but not having one installed.

Solution: Start udiskie with notifications disabled (udiskie -N or set notify: false in the config file), or install a notification daemon.

Debug information

How do I obtain debug information?

See Acquiring debug information