On Sunday 17 January 2021, William Morder via tde-users wrote: > On Saturday 16 January 2021 19:10:20 Steven D'Aprano via tde-users wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 11:44:27AM -0800, William Morder via tde-users > > wrote: > > > 'Twould be nice if Linux could handle fat32 sometimes without having to > > > format it to a Linux filesystem. > > What I mean is, these drives will not mount when using my Linux desktop, > but they still work fine in other devices. > > > As far as I know, all Linux distros should be able to handle fat32. > > > > man mkfs.fat > > > > should give you the options for formatting drives as a FAT system. > > Normally you don't call that directly, but call it through `mkfs` with > > the -t option. > > > > mkfs -t vfat <device> > > > > I would expect that all modern Linux distros support full read/write > > permissions on FAT drives. > > > > There's plenty of other people who have this issue, not just TDE: > > > > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linux+cannot+move+file+to+trash > > > > To support "move to trash", your drive needs to have a hidden trash > > directory. That's the case for other desktops, I assume TDE requires the > > same. I think that's normally called something like .Trash-1000 where > > the number at the end is your user id. > > > > Do you have write permission in top (root) directory of the USB stick? > > If you do an `ls -a` of that directory, can you see a hidden trash > > directory, and do you have permissions to write to it? > > > > If you make any changes to the permissions, you probably should unmount > > and remove the USB stick, then remount it, just in case TDE doesn't spot > > the changes. > > I enclosed a screenshot. Neither my SD card, nor flash drives, can be > mounted; I have gone about it every which way. Once they have been used on > another device, they become essentially unusable with my desktop. They > cannot be mounted, formatted, or anything else. > > When I try to mount them, I get an error message about permissions and > fstab, but I've tried changing those. My Devuan Jessie system had no > problems here, by the way. I found a web page with some nifty ideas about > how to force auto-mounting, if so desired: > > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-can-i-automount >-my-drives-in-debian-4175436306/ > > Since nobody else uses my desktop, this works for me; or rather, it used to > work in my Jessie system. Now that I am running Devuan Beowulf, it doesn't > work. It is long since that I hacked my system to behave as I wish about > mounting, but none of it works any more since upgrading to Beowulf. > > Bill > > P.S. See attachments for a screenshot of the non-mounting SD card, as well > as two other files which I got from the web page mentioned above. Bill go into file associations > inode and see what's at the top of the list. It should be konqueror or your file manager of choice. Also check embedded. Should be konq_something or the like Kate ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
