Mounting at Boot

Ask Fedora
1

I have a second drive installed in my system (/dev/sdb1) that asks me for my password at every boot. V44 KDE Plasma.
How can I stop this from requiring my password at every boot and just mount quietly?

Thanks!
Bob

2

Add to your ⁠/etc/fstab

UUID=uuid-here  /mnt/second_drive  ext4  defaults,nofail  0  2

You will have to create the mount point in advance: sudo mkdir -p /mnt/second_drive

Find out the UUID: lsblk -f

Test if it works: sudo mount -a

The example considers your second drive being ext4 formatted. Adjust it accordingly.

3

Thanks! By second_drive, that would be just sdb1?

4

Unless Fedora has changed this recently, after editing /etc/fstab, ‘sudo systemctl daemon-reload’ should be run to update systemd units generated from the file — see https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/10/html/managing_file_systems/persistently-mounting-file-systems.

5

Also, if you prefer a GUI approach, KDE Partition Manager can do this for you. (When you make changes in the “Edit Mount Point” screen, they are saved into /etc/fstab.)