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.

Look into mounting the drive as part of userspace?

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On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 6:10 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> 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

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