I am a noob to Arch Linux. I've enjoyed installing Arch, I now have a partially working LXDE. What I want to do is mount my linux & FAT32 partitions from PCMANFM. I don't have any problem with the USB stick mounting.

I have gone through the various guides in Arch, but have found no solution. I have made changes to polkit to allow user to access internal devices.

I have compared Lubuntu policies and permissions set up in arch polkit and really don't see any difference. I am able to mount view read and write in Lubuntu from PCMANFM.

I've tried Thunar and even installed XFCE4 in Arch, and have the same problem. All I get in PCMAN FM when clicking on the partition icon is "not authorized to perform operation."

Just not able to mount from FM.

I am not getting any response from their forum.

Has anybody experienced this issue? Is there any solution?

Thank you.

Edit: can mount using the terminal , and then going to PCMANFM going to / and /mnt and can read write from that partition.

I don't auto mount anything except what is in fstab, I found these if they help

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCManFM
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=132634
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDE

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@teckk

Thanks. I read those. I tried putting one of the partitions in fstab. It works, but not real comfortable with that.

I've decided manually mounting on terminal, and then using PCMAN is the best option.

@teckk

Solved: Since I didn't entirely read the wiki for LXDE on ARCH, I missed the solution.

solution:

Thanks again.