I installed EOS on a device with a single SSD. I gave this drive 5 partitions. I want 4 of those 5 to be mounted on boot and the fifth to be NOT mounted on boot, only on demand (when accessed).
The problem is that after booting, as soon as the desktop appears, udisks is triggering the partition I don’t want to be mounted and I get a password prompt:
…and it actually does what’s supposed to do.
With fstab/systemd.mount we configure how the system behaves.
The action that triggers the late mounting is coming from the DE (KDE setting, or applet) for “Auto mount disks”. This is also assumed from the password question, which seems to try to mount to standard user mount points, usually in /run/user/ . (although it should not do that, because of fstab line, but… who knows?.. Maybe the /dev/disk/by-uuid is to blame…)
OP should find this setting and modify it to not auto mount.
To verify fstab line is working as intended, try mounting in terminal, without specifying a mount point, or try with a different FM than Dolphin.