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New SSD requires password to mount (lemm.ee)
submitted 4 days ago by piratekaiser@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (3 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?

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Will that add two minutes to my boot time though?

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nope it doesn't add anything for me. The _netdev option tells mount to wait until the network is connected before attempting to mount. And the nofail option tells it not to error or block the process that called it if the mount doesn't work or is delayed.

Now if the mount contains your etc or other critical config files, it could cause problems and maybe you want to wait, so don't want the nofail. And of course this kind of thing is somewhat OS specific depending on what boot system and service manager, etc., is used, so YMMV, but on Fedora, Rocky, and Ubuntu, it has worked for me for many years.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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 _netdev option and created /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/30-nas-shares.sh containing (got the WiFi UUID using nmcli 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
fi

This 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.

[–] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 3 points 3 days 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