Mounting usb stick using device notifier - not writable
This isn't really a Plasma/KDE problem, but in case anyone else is puzzled by it I thought I'd post a solution here.
On my laptop (long established) usb sticks show up under /media/angus/Lexar and are writable.
On my newly installed quad core (MoBo discarded by my son, but more than good enough for me) they kept showing up under /media/usb0 and were not writable.
Following a few hours lost in the joys of udisksctl monitor, dbus monitor and udev, I happened upon a debian-installer bug report which points out that if one needs firmware from a stick during installation a line such as
"/dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0"
may be left behind by the installer. Commenting this out allows the expected writable kde mount point to be used.
The bug #779208 has been closed 6 months ago, but I installed about three weeks ago from a netinstall image and it bit me.
anxiousmac
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