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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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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

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Then it should be pretty straight forward.

Make sure you've created a folder to mount it to (i'd make a /sdb directory right under root, for locally mounted devices, when i want the whole device, but this isnt the best covention, any directory you want is fine)

do

lsblk

read for the drive you are looking for. getting its partition info something like /dev/sdb1

then do the fstab pretty standard if its ext4

something like (dont use the noatime option if you care about access times on files, it will provide a very slight perf increase in other places. See .)

/dev/sdb1 /sdb ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0