Hi folks,

I have some problems accessing NTFS USB devices from Dolphin.

If I mount by hand the device, mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /media/disk I can access to the disk from Dolphin.

mount command reports: /dev/sdc1 on /media/disk type fuseblk (rw,allow_other,blksize=512)

When the same disk is mounted through Dolphin (by clickin on the disk icon), I cannot see any content.
mount command reports: /dev/sdc1 on /media/FLS-U2-300 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=512,default_permissions)
root@obelix:~#

As you can see, mount command reports different configurations. I suspect the extra parameters used by Dolphine causing problems but I don't know how to configure KDE to change the mount options.

This problem is new to Slackware 13.1. My previous 13.0 configuration had not that problem.

Is this a problem related to Polkit?


Thanks for you help.

are your users part of the power and plugdev groups?

Yes

$groups alain
alain : users floppy audio video cdrom plugdev power netdev

I have also the problem if I connect as root.

Alain.

Some new tests

If I do a ls under the shell I get:

/bin/ls: lecture du répertoire /media/KOOGAR1TB/: Chaîne multi-octets ou étendue de caractères invalide ou incomplète

My system is in french so it means something like: multibyte string or invalid or incomplete scope of characters

I think the solution is to force KDE/Dolphin to use the valid mount options (fuseblk (rw,allow_other,blksize=512)

How can I do that?

Regards
Alain

i think it's because by default, Slackware is not set to UTF-8.
If you have UTF-8 on your system, i think it will not be an issue

My system is configured to UTF-8. My system is dual boot and I no problem accessing my Windows disk in NTFS.

Also, if I do "mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /media/disk" I have no problem at all. The problem occurs only when trying to automount in Dolphin. As I said previously, I have made a fresh install of Slack 13.1 I have used the same languages parameters I used in 13.0 and with no problem.

Regards
Alain