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.
Encrypted volume? If so, that’s why.
Right. Wouldn’t it make sense to unlock it along with my root drive when I log in though? There should be a way to do that
You could set the password to be the same. It’ll attempt to use all known methods when unlocking it.
You can also probably store a key on the root drive instead of using a password, but I’ve never done that.
They do use the same pass though, that’s why it’s so strange to me. Thanks for the help, this at least gives me a clue.
I’ll dig around and update the post for reference.
No
KDE has option to automount during login. I found that to be the best solution.
sudo mkdir /media/NewSSD # the name you like lsblk -f # look for UUID of new ssdthen add it to fstab https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab
Something like
UUID=<insert drive UUID> /media/NewSSD ext4 defaults 0 2Make sure you use the correct filesystem (e.g. ext4 or other)
If its encrypted, you can also decrypt the drive automatically once booted by adding an entry in
/etc/crypttabThis will make it so you don’t have to type the password.
This never worked for me…
For automatically you need to add a keyfile to a slot in the luks device
openssl genrsa -out /root/keyfile.bin 4096cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/mapper/extra /root/keyfile.binThe entry in the crypttab would be like this
extra UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX /root/keyfile.bin luks
And technically the key file can just be a plain text password and still work. Just as long as the key file matches the drive’s encryption password.
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?You may be right, but I worked around this using https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#Network_services_with_NetworkManager_dispatcher
Essentially, I added the CIFS shares to my fstab with the
_netdevoption and created /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/30-nas-shares.sh containing:#!/bin/sh WANTED_CON_UUID="UUID-OF-MY-WIFI-IN-NETWORK-MANAGER" 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.
