I need write access to local disks in Dolphin (both installed and LiveCD)

[Goh Lip]

Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Kubuntu 9.04
>>
>> I do not have write access to local hard drives that show up in
>> Dolphin's Places sidebar. How can I get write access? This applies to
>> installed systems, and to systems running the LiveCD (both suffer from
>> this issue). Thanks.
>>
> i'm not sure, first, if the disk is not mentioned in fstab, dolphin fils
> to mount it properly using HAL. if it's there, it asks for root
> password, and mounts it. but this is not alway this case, i seriously
> have no idea how this HAL thing works, so i find it best to mention
> everything in fstab, and not set them to automount of course, along with
> permissions and everything. this way, dolphin never acts up. i's a cool
> feature of dolphin, but like most of KDE, lacks documentation. any news
> about KDE4 documentation btw? i mean full bloated documentation not the
> simple click here get this basic documents.
> 


I mentioned this much earlier when I upgraded Jaunty to kde 4.3 beta in 
Jaunty. I am using cli to mount the partitions, and yes, fstab can 
handle this as well.

Is this happening now on kde 4.2.3 or kde 4.2.4?

It may be worthwhile to look at this before we file bug reports.

http://www.h-online.com/open/Ubuntu-9-10-Alpha-2-released--/news/113525


Regards,
Goh Lip