Since recent update system now blocks mounting of external HDD

[Cyclonick]

I have a 5Tb external hard drive formatted as ext4 and used exclusively for backing up internal drives and storing superfluous data.

I’m in Tumbleweed KDE.

Hitherto I have plugged it in like any other USB memory device. However, since a recent update (can’t say which I dup daily and don’t use the disk regularly). The system refuses to mount the disk even as sudo. The message is that I don’t have administrative rights to access the disk.

I can usually get in, eventually, by clicking on the “media list” in Krusader.

This behaviour appears to be related to the format (ext4) - another hdd 1Tb, formatted in vfat behaves normally. It seems that some new “security” rules have been slipped in and they’re annoying. And I’d like to turn them off.

[hendersj]

What is the exact message you get when you try to mount the disk as root (using sudo)? And what is the command that you are using?

Show the command and the output, and paste it in your reply here using preformatted text formatting (using the </> button in the editor toolbar).

[Cyclonick]

We’ll never know the answer to this one… I found a tab in settings which gave me the choice of automatically mounting disks the system has seen before. I’m not sure if I’m totally in favour of it, but it’s a solution to the problem - not a way of finding the reason.