On 04/15/2013 12:49 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:

On Apr 15, 2013 8:35 AM, "Paul Erickson" <va7nt@telus.net> wrote:
>
> On switching to F 18, whenever I try to use the "disk management" tool under "system tools" I get this message:
>
> There are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount or unmount.
> Contact your administrator.
>
> In previous versions of Fedora, I could access this tool without
> difficulty. What do I need to do to make this tool accessible?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> cheers, Paul
> --

Sounds like a permissions problem. I would call chown -R <user> on the disk :-)

Thanks, I deserved that!-)

According to another search, the problem could also be addressed by making the user part of the adm
group, I did that, or thought I did, but that doesn't seem to help.

Also previously in F 11 and earlier, I could put a new disk in an enclosure, plug it in and the utility
would find it, and give the option to format, mount etc. As far as I can tell the utility (accessed as
root) no longer does that, or is there something else I am missing?

Thanks for the time and attention.

cheers, Paul