I am trying to get my OpenSUSE 13.1 installation to mount all my physical drives at startup, without asking me to type in my password before those drives are accessible. For example, if I start Clementine, it looks for my music collection on one of the drives that must be authenticated prior to access. Unless I have already tried to access this drive and put in my password, Clementine shows that there is no music collection and I have to start the indexing process all over again.
So, I was thinking that if the drives are in the fstab file, then I won't have to authenticate via password when the system boots and the files on those drives will be immediately accessible. (Someone please tell me if this is not correct.) I have five physical drives in my system, but only three of these drives show up in my fstab file.
I have tried to add the other drives using the partition manager, but it will not add them to the fstab file. The drives in question are formatted NTFS and are used also in Windows 7. I am thinking that because the labels I gave those drives under Win7 have spaces and non-alphanumeric characters in them (e.g. "WD Blue HDD (1TB)") that the partitioner is having problems with them. Again, this is just a guess on my part...really not sure why they can't be added to fstab, and if they were, if they would allow me to access their contents without entering my password.
Here is some more detail on the file systems:
As you can see, three of the drives/partitions have labels with spaces and parentheses, which I think are causing the problems. So my question is, if my assumptions above are correct, what is the best way to go about renaming these drives, adding them to fstab, and making sure they auto-mount at startup without having to type in my password?
So, I was thinking that if the drives are in the fstab file, then I won't have to authenticate via password when the system boots and the files on those drives will be immediately accessible. (Someone please tell me if this is not correct.) I have five physical drives in my system, but only three of these drives show up in my fstab file.
Code:
# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500320AS_9QM4ESW9-part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Corsair_Force_GT_14217902000100380074-part1 / ext4 noatime,defaults 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Corsair_Force_GT_14217902000100380074-part2 /home ext4 noatime,defaults 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EAVS-00D7B1_WD-WCAU45740635-part1 /run/media/mxc/WDExternal ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8,nofail 0 0Here is some more detail on the file systems:
Code:
# df -T
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 ext4 40185208 8667716 29453108 23% /
devtmpfs devtmpfs 4072916 8 4072908 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 4087324 84 4087240 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 4087324 4744 4082580 1% /run
tmpfs tmpfs 4087324 0 4087324 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs tmpfs 4087324 4744 4082580 1% /var/run
tmpfs tmpfs 4087324 4744 4082580 1% /var/lock
/dev/sdb2 ext4 74931352 4457964 66644040 7% /home
/dev/sde1 fuseblk 976760000 440134184 536625816 46% /run/media/mxc/WDExternal
/dev/sdd1 fuseblk 976759804 113126368 863633436 12% /run/media/mxc/WD Blue HDD (1TB)
/dev/sdc1 fuseblk 484476924 57184308 427292616 12% /run/media/mxc/Seagate HDD (500GB)
/dev/sda2 fuseblk 244093948 41209420 202884528 17% /run/media/mxc/Samsung 840 Evo SSD