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Title pretty much says it all. I have a secondary storage HDD that I want mounted on start up, but it asks for a password every boot. In gnome I could set it to automount without asking, but in KDE I can't seem to find a way to do it.

Any suggestions to try?

Title pretty much says it all. I have a secondary storage HDD that I want mounted on start up, but it asks for a password every boot. In gnome I could set it to automount without asking, but in KDE I can't seem to find a way to do it. Any suggestions to try?

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note the x-systemd and automount parameters.

Is it a network share, or connected to the computer with USB?

Something like this would work for a cifs share adding credentials if you need those to access a share.

//server/share /pathto/mountpoint cifs credentials=/home/username/.smbcredentials,uid=shareuser,gid=sharegroup 0 0

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It's sata internal. My old HDD. Mainly used for inactive steam games and media storage

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This should just work in fstab with the right parameters:

/dev/partition /path/to/mountpoint ext3 defaults 0 2

If it's an NTFS partition there's a mount option to have it work properly with Wine/Proton.

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is it formatted to NTFS?

Sata internal HDD, the proper way to mount it is in fstab.

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I'll need to double check when I get home, 90% sure it's etx4