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Why can I only mount external disk via CLI? ["SOLVED"] (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by nebulaone to c/linux

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~~System is Arch Linux. NTFS-3G is installed. I have had this problem on Gnome (Nautilus) and KDE (Dolphin). I already tried fixing it with Testdisk. No success. Any help is appreciated.~~

UPDATE: I have re-formatted the disk and it is working now. Thank you for all your suggestions and tips.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Disks mounted via your user are mounted differently than when you sudo or with root. The driver needs FUSE support to allow you to mount it via your user.

You can find more info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS-3G#Allowing_user_to_mount

[–] nebulaone 2 points 2 months ago

I ran Nautilus with root privileges, same error message. I will read about FUSE support, though, thanks.