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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 0
Will that add two minutes to my boot time though?