James Kerr wrote: > On Sunday 23 August 2009 rcdawson@xxxxxxx wrote: > > >> I am using Mandriva 2009.1. I found my self re-installing on a new >> hard drive in order to get my video card to work. After the >> re-install I reconnected the old drive (keeping the new drive in >> place) and rebooted. My plan was to copy my old home directory. >> After reboot I found the old hard drive had been mounted as two >> "volumes" showing up in Dolphin. When I tried to open either of >> those volumes I received a message >> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy: >> org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed auth_admin_keep_always >> <--(action,result). >> >> How do I get around this Policy? Would it apply to any hard drive >> I install, or is it responding to the fact that Mandriva and KDE >> are installed on the second disk? >> >> I suppose this is a matter of curisity more than necessity, at >> least at the moment. I have copied my home to a USB drive, and >> that mounts OK and is accessible. For future reference, however, >> this would be useful information. >> > > Policy is that you must be root to mount a partition on an internal > hard drive. > > The solution is to add the partition to /etc/fstab. You can use > drakdisk (as root) to do this. > > Jim I have used Kubuntu since 7.04/KDE3.x. All my internal drives are available with no problems, and I don't have to be "root" to access them. I can move and swap files around as I please even to the Windows XP drive. -- Treat all stressful situations like a dog does. If you can't eat it or play with it, just pee on it and walk away ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.