Linux Mint 10 Julia does not prompt for the password before mounting

**Disha N** · 03-01-2011

Previously I am using Halena 8 on my laptop. Second partition was of the type of FAT32 and it prompts for the password whenever mount or access the data. I have recently updated the OS with Linux Mint Julia 10 and now it does not ask for the password whenever mount some data on the hard drive. I want to make possible this feature into Julia. Please help me for the same situation. Thanking you in advance

**DanielV** · 03-01-2011

Well I think you should use the following piece of code. I got this code when I was searching on th forum for the solution that you have mentioned above. Just try it and let me know whether code is working or not. cat /etc/fstab and now use the following cat /etc/mtab. Now navigate to the root directory into the system and use the command mount to mount file on the hard disk. I hope it will solve your problem

**Emiliio** · 03-01-2011

You have to remove Halena to remove from the hard disk. And you have to keep swap and FAT 32 partition as it is. You have to use following piece of the code to achieve the same. Just check it out and let me know. As far as I know it will work for you. Thanks a lot for the applying my suggestion

Code:

blkid =
/dev/sda1: UUID="36f805c8-9270-47e3-a24f-6868f3cc65fe" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sda5: UUID="FC16-3849" TYPE="vfat" 
/dev/sda6: UUID="cef1437e-443a-475e-9fd0-5f47060ee5af" TYPE="ext4"

mv · 03-01-2011

According to my knowledge you have to modify policykit file which is located at the root directory. You have to use following code
gksu gedit /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla You have to copy paste the above code on the terminal. No need to restart your computer. I think after modifying policykit file it prompt you whenever you mount file on the hard disk.