Changing HDD properties in KDE's Dolphin

As you didn’t provide any technical information on the partition you’re wanting to share (there is no concept of drives in Linux, just the Linux file system and partitions who happen to reside on disks) so it’s hard to say what your real issue is, but it smells like an NTFS partition issue

NTFS partitions can be read and written to and you can even show the permissions but you cannot change them: that needs to be done under Windows and the way that the NTFS-3G userland driver copes with that is by not providing an error message.

So the answer to:

is: That’s by design!

However that’s just supposition and we cannot answer that question in depth without more information like the output to:

mount | grep "^/dev/.d"
parted --list

:wink:

In the hypothetical case it is an NTFS partition, you’ll benefit a lot from reading this:

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