Within my workflow i generally use an internal HDD for storage, as well as an external card reader via usb, however whenever i attempt to open a drive after startup i am prompted to authorise access and and enter a password, which is a large inconvenience when anyone could simply open these partitions using my other linux os (mint) without such restrictions.
Is there any way i can remove the need for this security?
You can’t remove the need for the security, but you can probably increase your access level to those devices
Try this: add yourself to the group “disk”. Logout and login(or reboot) for the group change to take effect.
Does that fix it? If not, try adding yourself to the group “storage” and repeat the same steps.
how do i add myself to the group? i dont see anything related to groups in the users panel, and a search for groups didn’t find anything either
sudo usermod -aG disk username
Replace username with your actual username
Or: you can add your HDD in your /etc/fstab
The solution suggested here might be of your help !
Tried the usermod method, no luck on both disk and storage. looking at that solution regarding /etc/fstab, is there a way i can generate the precise format /. order the items are listed? using fstab revealed what i can see is the necessary contents but not in the right format.
How is your fstab looking then ?
Share its entry.
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID=20ad7745-471f-4032-90f5-ebfa41055221 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
Reading now
read through it, still unclear how i can put it in the same format as fstab, since the file seems to use spaces rather than tabs to separate columns
ran the code to find the UUID/label successfully, but nowhere on the link did i spot anything about regenerating the exact format that the other entries are in.
all i need is plasma (ofc), mint/win7 partitions, and the 1TB hard drive
[main-i5-kde-user@main-i5-kde ~]$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0
squash 4.0 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/atom/286
loop1
squash 4.0 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/1611
loop2
squash 4.0 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/16292
sda
├─sda1
│ ntfs win7 20EAC5A2EAC57496
├─sda2
│
├─sda3
│ ext4 1.0 20ad7745-471f-4032-90f5-ebfa41055221 104.8G 16% /
├─sda5
│ swap 1 271f607c-3908-4e60-b719-535d7ba78254
├─sda6
│ vfat FAT32 987D-6AD2
└─sda7
ext4 1.0 mint 9acd1384-d81c-4676-8d42-00a04388f263
sdb
├─sdb1
│ ntfs System Reserved
│ 20E898CAE8989F98
└─sdb2
ntfs DRIVE 1 105C00445C002756 711.4G 24% /run/media/main-i5-kde-user/DRIVE 1
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Put in the new entries by hand, using spaces.
Then ctrl+o to save, and ctrl+x to exit nano editor.
<fsck>sets the order for file system checks at boot time; see fsck(8). For the root device it should be1. For other partitions it should be2, or0to disable checking.
all working, thanks a ton!!!
love this os + forum, so helpful, great community
Please mark the post leading you to solve this issue you had as “solution”.
Thanks!
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