I am beyond my troubles with this issue and only compassionately posting this issue to help others. With some careful thought, I will share this issue with gnome nautilus team. It seems logical that one should be able to right click on a drive located on the sidebar thinggy. or a drive located in "Other locations" Right click, automount (obviously it would be for the current user).
Perhaps a server would not like this mounted for everyone with sensitive drives.. but then again.. you would not automount such sensitive drives. However, you might point to them and they might point to you. I hope it gets resolved. Auto-mount is essential for recent-file-lists to work properly. Ubuntu is quite stable and needs to focus on more usabliltiy issues. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972766 Title: Changing default mounting options causes root owner Status in gnome-disk-utility package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Ubuntu 22.04 If I change the default mounting options in Gnome Disk Utility the owner is root. This threw me for a loop when all of my git repos were not working. I thought it was an ubuntu 22.04 problem or a ppa. It is directly from Gnome Disk Utility by changing the auto mount options. I don't remember this happening before. Reproduce **Control:** Under default mount options. Go to your data partition, right click and look at properties/permissions. You will be the owner. **Cause the bug.** Select a data partition you might have (ntfs) for dual boot machines to share data. Change the switch from default mounting options (top switch) to manual settings. Change label to human readable. ("Data"). Reboot. Go to your data partition, right click and look at properties/permissions. It will say the owner is root and you are not the owner. **Fix For The Problem:** It took a long time, but I had to add uid=1000,gid=1000 to the settings. This hard to research "mystery setting" is not acceptable for a GUI mounting tool. Reboot. Go to your data partition, right click and look at properties/permissions You will be the owner. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/1972766/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp