So I have two SSDs in my laptop running FedoraKDE, and every time I mount the one used for storage, I have to type the luks password and then my root password. So, looking it up, I found that to not need root to mount the drive I need to add it to fstab.
I added (as was told by the internet since I'm flying by the seat of random stackoverflow help in absence of real knowledge):
UUID=uuid-string-goes-here /path/to/directory ext4 defaults 0 0
To fstab (and forgot to chown the directory, oops!) and rebooted, aaaaaaand now I get booted into "emergency mode" with root disabled and have no clue what to do.
I think I used the right uuid, it was nvme0p1 (or whatever that drive said the right name was, can't check now!) In any case, I didn't use the uuid of the drive my system was running on, for sure.
Boot hangs on
job dev-disk-by\x2duuid- [Something something]
Edit: Still taking any advice on how to actually not have to use root to mount this drive, though my boot issue is solved and it looks like I have some links to peruse already!
No idea about most of your question, but I think you entered the wrong UUID.
nvme0p1is the name of the partition.Use
blkidin the Terminal, the output will be something like:This is how a valid UUID looks like:
a7d71686-0a65-4402-b6e6-b58430ef8351Well tarnation. I thought it had to be the one I used because when I go to mount the first part of that drive in nnn it says no, then when I try to mount that partition it says "yes but oh wait permission denied cause root."