How to browse to slave HD without password prompt

[mjc]

I have a second internal hard drive (IDE) that I use for storage. I get to it by clicking the icon for it under "storage devices" with Dolphin, or Konqueror. It is formatted with one large etx3 partition.
The problem is I get a password prompt the first time I browse there after boot. I assume this has something to do with it not being automatically mounted at startup... but ideally I prefer that it not mount automatically, I just don't want to have the keep tying the password each new session. Any ideas how to fix this?

[Snowhog]

Re: How to browse to slave HD without password prompt

Ensure that it is identified properly in your /etc/fstab file. If it's an internal HD, there is no reason that you shouldn't have it set to automount at boot.

[mjc]

Re: How to browse to slave HD without password prompt

Thanks. I thought there was an advantage to not mounting file systems until you need them. This is the default in Ubuntu. On a different PC I have running Ubuntu with a slave internal HD, the device is listed under "places", but isn't mounted until you click it the first time, only then do you get the desktop icon for it. Isn't that set up that way to save system resources?

[Detonate]

Re: How to browse to slave HD without password prompt

Go to System Settings, Advanced, Disk&file Systems.

Enter Administrator mode. Highlight the partition on the disk in question, and click Modify at the bottom of the page. Change the setting "Root user only may enable/disable" to "any user may enable /disable anytime". That's the easy way to do it.

[mjc]

Re: How to browse to slave HD without password prompt

Thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for. Sometimes the command line isn't the best way to do something.