Authentication required to mount drive
Hi all,
Newbie fyi.
I've only seem to run into this problem with arch and bazzite, so far. The drive I boot bazzite from, as well as my Windows partition, both mount no problem, but any other drive seems to require me entering my password after booting. I first noticed this because the games I installed weren't available until trying to search for them in dolphin (which prompted the root pwd). I've tried to edit /etc/fstab, but messed it up a ton, and am basically back to square one after lots of hair pulling. If anyone could provide a guide on how to automatically mount my drives on boot, that would be much appreciated.
Side note - going to sleep now, will respond in the morning.
Thanks.
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Auto-Mounting Secondary Drives - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
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Auto-Mounting Secondary Drives - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
Do I have to wipe the drive before configuring auto-mount? I have some data that I'd rather not delete
no you do not
pretty sure the guide even says to skip if you are not planning on formating
huh seems like that warning is gone, might have vanished during migration
you want this part
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/Auto-Mounting_Secondary_Drives/#graphical-user-interface-gui-methods-for-auto-mounting
Auto-Mounting Secondary Drives - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
Oh my god lmao. I thought these links were just links to download the apps. I was like "okay so wtf do you want me to do?!"
regarding compression - i see 3 is recommended. would you recommend going higher if i have a newer cpu (ryzen 5700x3d)?
Either way it worked! Thanks so much, sorry for being an end user LOL.
also i made a massive mistake by restarting to test whether the mounts worked and i'll try to remember that for the future lol
Higher number uses more CPU whenever you access files.
3 is recommended because it gives ok compression for almost no CPU usage on newer CPUs.
On older ones (2015 and older I think) the CPU usage is more noticable so we recommend lowering it if you want automatic compression.
Compression also only happens on new files (or overwritten files) after the compression option is added.
If you click and mount a disk from the file explorer then compression is not used for example