I'm "not authorized" to mount a USB, but "mount without verifying" works fine

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This has been by far the buggiest part of KDE for me across multiple devices. I often have “disks and devices” take a long time “accessing” and then telling me I’m not authorized to mount a usb stick I just plugged in. It’s consistent but only for some USBs. Mounting manually in the command line works but I shouldn’t have to do that. If I do “mount without verifying” the disk immediately mounts with no issues. And in case you are wondering, yes, I have tried fsck:

sudo fsck.exfat -vv /dev/sda1
exfatprogs version : 1.3.1
[exfat_get_blk_dev_info: 198] Block device name : /dev/sda1
[exfat_get_blk_dev_info: 199] Block device offset : 1048576
[exfat_get_blk_dev_info: 200] Block device size : 988260859904
[exfat_get_blk_dev_info: 201] Block sector size : 512
[exfat_get_blk_dev_info: 202] Number of the sectors : 1930196992
[exfat_get_blk_dev_info: 204] Number of the clusters : 7539832
[main:1875] verifying root directory…
[exfat_root_dir_check:1556] root directory: start cluster[0x4] size[0x100000]
label: GENEALOGY_2
[read_bitmap: 991] start cluster 0x2, size 0x1cc32
[main:1882] verifying directory entries…
sector size: 512.00 B
cluster size: 1.00 MB
volume size: 920.38 GB
/dev/sda1: clean. directories 40796, files 373242

So I’d appreciate advice on either:

  • Making KDE more robust at mounting drives, or
  • Making “mount without verifying” the permanent default behavior

Thanks.

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Usually these are config for the Distro you are using, rather then KDE plasma.

Which distro are you using, Fedora, debian, arch, ubuntu?

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Yeah, this is indeed annoying. It’s https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505852; we’ll get it fixed.

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Glad to know it’s on the radar. I tried searching terms like “exfat” and “mount” but I missed this one. :slight_smile:

My devices are generally either Arch or some derivative of it. It does look like there is a distro-agnostic workaround linked in the above bug report I could at least look into for the time being.