Hi,
I just installed openSUSE 12.3 KDE x64 on one of my PCs and installed Thunderbird as it is a vital software for me.
The Profile is stored on a mounted NTFS partition, so I changed the path in “/home/roberto/.thunderbird/profiles.ini” to the folder on my mounted partition, like
Path=/media/ntfs1/x44537.default
But it cannot access it, no mather what. I keep getting the “Thunderbird is already running” or “profile folder is not found. etc” errors even though I did exactly the same thing on my other machine wich runs openSUSE 12.2 KDE x64 and works fine.
I immediately thought I has something to do with permissions so I did a “chmod 777 for /media/ntfs1/x44537.default” folder but it doesn’ work.
I also tried mounting the partition to a new folder created directly in “/”, like “/mountedntfs”, but this also does not work.
I only works if I mount the partition manually, that is no entry in fstab, clicking the Label in Dolphin after rebooting and providing my password. I see now in 12.3 the partitions are mounted in “var/run”.
On 12.2 KDE still used udisk1 which mounts all drives to /media.
But on 12.3 KDE uses the successor udisks2, this mounts the drives to /var/run/media/$USER/ by default.
If you want to mount the drive to /media, you have 2 possibilites:
create a directory in /media and add an entry in /etc/fstab which mounts the drive to that directory.
udisks2 respects fstab, so even if you manually mount with dolphin, it’s mounted to that directory set in /media (you can set it to automatically be mounted on boot as well, of course). /media is no tmpfs in 12.3 (contrary to 12.2) so the directory you created in /media will stay there.
But since it is an NTFS filesystem you have to specify mount options for your user to have access.
From “man mount”:
**uid=**value, **gid=**value and **umask=**value
Set the file permission on the filesystem. The umask value is given in octal. By default, the files are owned by root and not readable by somebody else.