I did some research on the subject and everything I found about ext4 in userspace said don't do it with data you care about.  I finally looked up options for fstab and found that changing user to users fixed the problem.  I backed up a drive today. When I finished, and unmounted the backup drive, It didn't bug me for a password. On 5/16/20 7:04 PM, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Look into mounting the drive as part of userspace? > > > Virus-free. www.avast.com > > > > > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 6:10 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss > > wrote: > > I have some hard drives in my computer that I back up using > Grsync.  I > have one of those USB hard drive docking stations I put another > drive in > when I'm ready to do a backup.  The backup works fine, but when I > go to > unmount the drive containing the backup, the system prompts me for my > password.  Is there some change I can make in fstab to stop the > system > nagging me for my password?  Here is the entry in fstab for one of > the > backup drives. > > UUID=797f7b69-9b84-4b22-8e64-73f9104eb79e /media/delboy/boffo ext4 > noauto,user        0    0 > > thanks > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss