I installed an additional SSD on my pc. Everything works ok, except I need to unlock it with my root password on every session so that it mounts.
I’ve tried formatting it to change the ‘owner’, tried adding it to the user group, and I can’t find any other solutions. Any ideas?
This happens irrelevant of DE (happens on KDE and hyprland). I’m running tumbleweed, though this looks like a config problem rather than a distro problem.
Generally, they enforce in Linux using root permissions to mount internal hard drives unlike USB drives that can be mounted by the user If you want to mount it automatically in every boot, you could modify the /etc/fstab to add an entry for it
I have a related issue. Mine is a network share and it’s in fstab, but I have Linux boot without waiting for wifi, so the mount fails and then asks for root password when I try to mount it later.
I think I just need to add “user” to the options field, right?
Try adding the nofail and _netdev options in your fstab entry. I have this on a few computers that connect to nfs shares including my laptop that obviously can only connect when I’m at home or on VPN. Example:
server:/path /mnt/path nfs4 defaults,nofail,_netdev 0 0Will that add two minutes to my boot time though?
You may be right, but I worked around this using https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#Network_services_with_NetworkManager_dispatcher
I added the CIFS shares to my fstab with the
_netdevoption and created /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/30-nas-shares.sh containing (got the WiFi UUID usingnmcli con show):#!/bin/sh WANTED_CON_UUID="UUID-OF-MY-WIFI" if [ "$CONNECTION_UUID" = "$WANTED_CON_UUID" ]; then case "$2" in "up"|"vpn-up") mount -a -t cifs ;; esac fiThis waits for my WiFi to come up, ensures it’s my home WiFi, and then mounts my shares.
There are probably other and better ways to do it, but it works.
I believe systemd after targets work tho I have never tried them Try adding this to mount options