[solved] Remove Password to access FAT32 drive

[Guest]

Hi,

I recently got kde and I can access both my fat32 drive with no issues. But, I first need to enter the password before doing it. Since all my wallpapers and music and misc stuff are in the FAT32 drive, I end up with no wallpaper showing up when I boot up. I need to go to Dolphin, enter my password, and then my wallpaper shows up! Is there any way I can do away with password access? I want the FAT32 drive to be mounted without needing password.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 9752 78332908+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9753 10172 3373650 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 * 10173 20024 79135906+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 20025 24321 34515652+ b W95 FAT32

Thanks for the help!

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Remove Password to access FAT32 drive

You need an entry in your /etc/fstab file that specifies how the drive is to be mounted.

Assuming you want the fat32 drive mounted in /media/windows, add a line like this to /etc/fstab (you will have to sudo into your editor to do that):

/dev/sda4   /media/windows vfat user,rw,umask=000 0 0

Then

sudo mkdir /media/windows

This will mount your vfat drive in /media/windows, and it should be fully accessible during bootup. To test this without rebooting, you must first unmount your vfat drive and then:

sudo mount -a

Note that opens up your vfat disk to any user to whatever they want to do with it; I'm assuming you are the only user on the system.

[Guest]

Re: Remove Password to access FAT32 drive

Great.

Thank you so much!