Bug 490872

Summary:	Device Auto-Mount does not work with some disk/partition/labels setups
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	jroddev <kde.backboned759>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	anthonyn562013, kde, kdedev, nate, tim, travier
Priority:	NOR
Version:	6.1.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description jroddev 2024-07-27 02:11:53 UTC

Referring to 'Plasma System Settings / Disks & Cameras / Device Auto-Mount' feature.

- Device Auto-Mount does not seem to work on AuroraOS (Immutable Fedora). 
- Device Auto-Mount does work on regular Fedora 40.
- Modifying /etc/fstab does auto-mount the disks on AuroraOS as expected.
- Clicking on an unmounted Drive in Dolphin successfully mounts the drive to /run/media/<disk>

I couldn't see anything obvious in journalctl but it's possible that I'm not searching for the right keywords.

This guide https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=970 recommends mounting external disks into `/var/mnt` so the issue could be that `/run/media` doesn't exist until after auto-mount is attempted? Or is readonly? Or something like that. Just guessing here.

If I mount nvme0n1p3 which contains my home dir the only directories it contains are 
- home
- root
- var
So maybe those are the only valid auto-mount paths? 


OBSERVED RESULT
disk are not mounted after login. 

EXPECTED RESULT
disks are mounted during login

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: AuroraOS (Immutable Fedora)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version:  6.4.0
Qt Version:  6.7.2

Comment 1 Timothée Ravier 2024-09-02 09:51:14 UTC

I can semi reproduce this issue on Fedora Kinoite 40. It looks like it depends on how the device is formatted / set up / the labels on the partitions are set?

I initially tried with a disk and that did not work. I then plugged a USB key with a live ISO on it and that did work.