Every time I boot into CachyOS, all of my drives except the system drive are locked. I have to open each one individually, enter my password, and mount it again after every restart. The drives are internal, not encrypted, and their ownership is shown as root. How can I configure them to mount automatically, and is there a way to disable my account password? I am the only person who uses this computer.
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The password prompt may be related to the partitions being owned by root. After mounting them, check the filesystem and mount points, then adjust ownership or permissions so your normal user can access the files. For Linux filesystems, `chown` can change ownership, but be careful not to apply it blindly to an entire system partition. Adding the partitions to fstab handles automatic mounting; changing ownership handles normal access afterward.
You can remove or disable the login password through the account settings, or with the appropriate user-management command, but that does not automatically grant password-free administrative access. Removing the password from sudo or root operations is strongly discouraged: anyone using the computer could install software, change system settings, or access everything. An automatic login is a safer compromise if your goal is simply to avoid entering a password at startup.
I checked the partitions and they are not encrypted. They all show root as the owner, so the ownership and automatic-mount configuration seem to be the main issues.