[SOLVED] No Permission to edit dolphin mounted SSD

[jook]

I added a new SSD to my PC. I formatted it with KDE partition manager. I opened up dolphin and mounted the drive to find out adding folders and copying files options are greyed out.
Does dolphin mount drives by default as read only? How can I override this to mount with full permissions?

Thanks for any help

[jook]

I added this to my fstab
# kingston drive
UUID=3803e39a-1e56-4880-923a-97a1685e9b2c /media/kingston ext4 defaults 0 0

Mounts on startup just fine, but I still cannot add data to it.

I think I have to make the drive editable by all users or as myself.

Can I add more to the above to make it editable at mount time?

[Don B. Cilly]

Under your /home directory? What does ls -la ~/ say?
Because if you're trying to do that under other directories, it's normal enough.

[EDIT] If you're trying to restore from backup, your backup program should let you do it.
If you want to clone your old disk to the new one, there are quite a few options.

What is it exactly that you'd like to do?

[claydoh]

I added this to my fstab
# kingston drive
UUID=3803e39a-1e56-4880-923a-97a1685e9b2c /media/kingston ext4 defaults 0 0

Mounts on startup just fine, but I still cannot add data to it.

I think I have to make the drive editable by all users or as myself.

Can I add more to the above to make it editable at mount time?

Yes, ext4 and other Linux filesystems need to have permissions set, even if you do things with the fstab

It is really easy, if you only have one user account. You just need to change the ownership to the directory that the drive is mounted to:

sudo chown -R your-username /media/kingston/

Edit the directory location as needed.

[jook]

I just wanted to add a drive for my steam library. I have been trying bad variants of Claydoh's command. I just pasted in his command with the syntax right and all is good now.

Thanks for your help.