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?
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> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 6:10 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss
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> <mailto: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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