I installed an additional SSD on my pc. Everything works ok, except I need to unlock it with my root password on every session so that it mounts.
I’ve tried formatting it to change the ‘owner’, tried adding it to the user group, and I can’t find any other solutions. Any ideas?
This happens irrelevant of DE (happens on KDE and hyprland). I’m running tumbleweed, though this looks like a config problem rather than a distro problem.
Will that add two minutes to my boot time though?
Nope it doesn’t add anything for me. The _netdev option tells mount to wait until the network is connected before attempting to mount. And the nofail option tells it not to error or block the process that called it if the mount doesn’t work or is delayed.
Now if the mount contains your etc or other critical config files, it could cause problems and maybe you want to wait, so don’t want the nofail. And of course this kind of thing is somewhat OS specific depending on what boot system and service manager, etc., is used, so YMMV, but on Fedora, Rocky, and Ubuntu, it has worked for me for many years.