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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.

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[–] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

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?

[–] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 3 points 19 hours ago

I believe systemd after targets work tho I have never tried them Try adding this to mount options

x-systemd.after=network-online.target

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