KDE automounter mounts as root

Aleksey Midenkov midenok at gmail.com
Sat Jul 8 10:03:38 BST 2017


I am an average Joe and I use Ubuntu 17.04. I don't have any fstab
entries regarding thumb drives or vfat filesystem. Mountpoint is
`/media/midenok/4F02-5CB4`.

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 11:43 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> What distribution is that, or did you build KDE from source yourself? What mountpoint do these drives get?
>
> I can recall that with my KUbuntu 14.04 desktop I have set up /etc/fstab entries for certain external media (using the "user" or even uid mount options, but I don't think that was for generic FAT-formatted thumb drives. IOW, I think everything worked fine for the needs of the average Joe or Jane User and I had to do the usual fstab tweaking only when I had special needs.
>
> R.




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