Hello All
The other day I wanted to check my camera’s photos and for a while I could not get it(USB) recognized til I figured that I need to go through " Configure Desktop". While trying I think I added ‘mount’ to a partition(Mint). Anyway I didn’t need to and now I have to confirm the mount with password every time I boot. Would someone be able to tell me where I can turn this off(unmount)? Thanks
https://s28.postimg.org/l0p1drb49/image.jpg](https://postimg.org/image/l0p1drb49/)
Did you add it to mount at boot?? is it encrypted???
Really need more info
Like when do you see this message???
look in /etc/fstab and see if that is were it is added.
My experience was that the KDE device notifier did not work at all well in 42.1. It is working fine in 42.2.
The device you show in the image appears to be reported as an internal SSD (Micron M600 device, /dev/sda2), so that would explain why root privileges (via polkit) are needed to access it. It is not a removable device as such, but check that it is not somehow listed in System Settings > Removable Devices
@ deano_ferrari;2806415, Thanks
Look here, nothing there. I just can’t remember where I changed to mount it at boot. It should’ve been obvious that it wasn’t the right thing to do.:embarrassed:
https://s23.postimg.org/wyak2ozw7/Removable_Devices.jpg](https://postimg.org/image/wyak2ozw7/)
thanks@ gogalthorp;2806401]
I must’ve added it to mount at boot. Thinking that that would help. It wasn’t the right drive anyway:shame: . Don’t think it is encrypted.
I see the message when the desktop is loaded, after boot.
UUID=fd0aaaab-fb1b-4c31-9bf2-a29427595e95 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 / btrfs defaults 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /boot/grub2/i386-pc btrfs subvol=@/boot/grub2/i386-pc 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi btrfs subvol=@/boot/grub2/x86_64-efi 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /opt btrfs subvol=@/opt 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /srv btrfs subvol=@/srv 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /tmp btrfs subvol=@/tmp 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /usr/local btrfs subvol=@/usr/local 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /var/crash btrfs subvol=@/var/crash 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /var/lib/libvirt/images btrfs subvol=@/var/lib/libvirt/images 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /var/lib/mailman btrfs subvol=@/var/lib/mailman 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /var/lib/mariadb btrfs subvol=@/var/lib/mariadb 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /var/lib/mysql btrfs subvol=@/var/lib/mysql 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /var/lib/named btrfs subvol=@/var/lib/named 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /var/lib/pgsql btrfs subvol=@/var/lib/pgsql 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /var/log btrfs subvol=@/var/log 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /var/opt btrfs subvol=@/var/opt 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /var/spool btrfs subvol=@/var/spool 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /var/tmp btrfs subvol=@/var/tmp 0 0
UUID=99bb14d9-f816-47a9-8b0a-7699da005b87 /.snapshots btrfs subvol=@/.snapshots 0 0
UUID=34C6-E029 /boot/efi vfat umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
UUID=38b1d867-7fd6-4c2a-8e53-c6dba24d97af /home xfs defaults 1 2
that’s not a real issue
your device is recognized as an external hdd and root privileges are required to access it, you can use polkit to give all users write privileges to external partitions
see
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/521877-Dolphin-Drag-and-Drop?p=2805475#post2805475
that won’t auto-mount the device but dolphin (or any other file manager) won’t ask for root password when you do mount it
Yes, but as I pointed out ( and the OP now realises) the device concerned had nothing to do with the camera/external media.
Update; By configuring, Application Manu-settings-configuring desktop- removable devices, untick “Enable automatic mounting of removable devices” I have been able to stop the popup request for password.
It is not really removable media. It is the partition where Mint is. It means I cannot attach a usb without having to enter a password and/or undo the tick again.
It feels it isn’t quite right yet?
Yes, probably a bug report is required to get that fixed. Following a quick search, I did find a bug report describing similar behaviour here.
Some users have found that they have a BIOS setting to enable/disable hot-plugging of certain storage devices which then causes them to be detected as removable or not.
If you execute the following
udisksctl info -b /dev/sda2
you’ll probably get output showing that it is flagged as a removable device
MediaRemovable: true
A udev rule targeting the problem device could be used to set the environment flag ‘ENV{UDISKS_SYSTEM_INTERNAL}=“1”’, but better to get it fixed properly IMO.
FWIW, I don’t usually use “Enable automatic mounting of removable devices”, but just use the notifier to mount external media when needed. I have Dolphin configured to show the devices available, so that can also be used to ‘mount on demand’.
This opensuse bug report mentions that it has now been fixed as of kernel 4.5…
The stable kernel switched to 4.5, and it contains the fix for this problem:
dc8b4afc4a04fac8ee55a19b59f2356a25e7e778
ata: ahci: don’t mark HotPlugCapable Ports as external/removable
Please reopen if the issue is still seen with 4.5 kernel. Thanks.
thanks @ deano_ferrari;2806472]
gde@linux-raih:~> udisksctl info -b /dev/sda2
/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sda2:
org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block:
Configuration: ]
CryptoBackingDevice: '/'
Device: /dev/sda2
DeviceNumber: 2050
Drive: '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Micron_M600_MTFD_15240FC54CFA'
HintAuto: false
HintIconName:
HintIgnore: false
HintName:
HintPartitionable: true
HintSymbolicIconName:
HintSystem: true
Id: by-id-ata-Micron_M600_MTFDDAK256MBF_15240FC54CFA-part2
IdLabel:
IdType: ext4
IdUUID: 0dfdedd2-b5d4-4a3b-837b-562f44952a5f
IdUsage: filesystem
IdVersion: 1.0
MDRaid: '/'
MDRaidMember: '/'
PreferredDevice: /dev/sda2
ReadOnly: false
Size: 41943040000
Symlinks: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Micron_M600_MTFDDAK256MBF_15240FC54CFA-part2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0ATA_Micron_M600_MTFD_15240FC54CFA-part2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-1ATA_Micron_M600_MTFDDAK256MBF_15240FC54CFA-part2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3500a07510fc54cfa-part2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Micron_M600_MTFD_15240FC54CFA-part2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Micron_M600_MTF_15240FC54CFA-part2
/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x500a07510fc54cfa-part2
/dev/disk/by-partuuid/1f4dce86-4c0d-4ec7-871e-97e391fc4afc
/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-ata-1.0-part2
/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0-part2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/0dfdedd2-b5d4-4a3b-837b-562f44952a5f
org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem:
MountPoints:
org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Partition:
Flags: 0
IsContained: false
IsContainer: false
Name:
Number: 2
Offset: 537919488
Size: 41943040000
Table: '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sda'
Type: 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
UUID: 1f4dce86-4c0d-4ec7-871e-97e391fc4afc
gde@linuxraih:~>
Ok, the udisksctl output does not report it as removable device which is strange, so I’m not sure why it is treated as such.
Thanks.
Over the next 24hrs or so I will have a few more reboots and try the settings in the removable devices.
Did you check your UEFI/BIOS for hotplugging options?
Would I go for that to the bios settings at boot?
Yes, you can access it via particular key combo at boot.
Haven’t seen that setting in bios
https://s28.postimg.org/433vq24x5/bios.jpg](https://postimg.org/image/433vq24x5/)
A simple udev rule might also work eg /etc/udev/rules.d/20-udisk-ignore.rules
KERNEL=="sda2", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
A better rule might match on unique device path instead. You can get that using
find /sys/devices/ -name sda2
For example, I get
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0d.0/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda2
so rule could be
DEVPATH=="/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0d.0/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda2", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
or for whole sda device
DEVPATH=="/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0d.0/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
I’ll be sweating soon! 
de@linux-raih:~> find /sys/devices/ -name sda2
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda2
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Nice to see a local!