Hi,

I'm using desktop folderview and have three HD device icons on my desktop. One of them is for a backup partition which is not automatically mounted on boot. The partition in question has the "users" option in /etc/fstab so any user would be able to mount it. However, whenever I click on the partition icon to mount it, I get an error message from plasma with the following text:

Could not mount device
The reported error was:
mount: only root can do that

The very same operation in KDE3 works for mounting/unmounting the partition, but not in KDE 4.2.1. Further, when I right-click on one of the HD icons on my desktop, in the context menu, there's no mount/unmount option like there used to be in KDE3 so currently I always have to open a terminal and manually mount the partition. Any ideas why KDE4 doesn't mount partitions even if the "users" or "user" option is set for the specific partition?

The loss of mount / unmount items in the context menus is possibly because of the move in KDE 4 to become platform agnostic or because the feature is not yet been added to the Folderview, which uses Dolphin in some part I think.

It is possible that KDE 4 is trying to manually mount the disk itself using a custom command, causing the failure.