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I have three drives on my machine - sda, sdb, and sdc. /home resides on sdb. I am running Mageia 6 RC. All the drives automount fine EXCEPT for /home.
I get a message saying "authentication required to mount (the actual Western Digital drive name)" I type in my user password and it's all OK at that point.
I think I am missing a line in fstab (there's no mention of sdb1)
What should go on that line?

Thank you!

How did you install that with /home not having an entry in fstab, did you set that up later? And what does your fstab contain currently?

In your case what you could do is add a polkit rule to not prompt for the password, as the default polkit rules request a password for all internal drives (which includes eSATA external drives)
But this would only mount /home pretty late, when your desktop environment is already partially loaded, which is a pretty bad idea in general if you ask me.

Best add an fstab entry for this one, default options should be fine for that.

I thought I added it. I Maybe I didn't. I tried adding what I thought it should be, and it wouldn't boot. Something about hold while booting cleans up. What should the line say?
/home is on sdb1....
something like UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /home ext4 defaults,nofail 0 0

I know nothing about polkit. How do I change that?

Thank you.

lloyd wrote:Something about hold while booting cleans up.

Could you please post the actual part of the boot log? In doubt best attach the full

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journalctl -ab

log here. Also please post your complete fstab and the output of

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lsblk -fl

as root for comparison.

Can you test the fstab entry by doing

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mount /home

when booting in safe mode, does it work there ?

[SOLVED] I just checked in Dolphin and it lists the drive as /run/media/lloyd instead of /home. I added a line to fstab which is similar to the other drives. Presto, it works! It may not be /home, but I may re-install everything once the final release is out.

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks