make nautilus stop asking for password when mounting disk

Question

My desktop has another hard drive which I intend to use for data storage and the issue is that nautilus always asks for password when trying to mount that drive.

Same when I try and access the drive from the terminal, I get

ls: cannot open directory '/media/luca/Storage/': Permission denied

So basically, I always need to use sudo to perform file operations on this directory.

Now, is there a way to remove this restriction. How can I auto mount this drive without having to specify my password every time or having to use sudo every time I have to access files on this drive?

I am using ubuntu 18.04.

Does this answer your question? How to make partitions mount at startup? — schrodingerscatcuriosity, Apr 21 '20 at 20:39
@guillermochamorro Thank you for the comment. The thing is it does mount it but asks me for password everytime I want to access it. How can I make it not ask for password everytime? — Luca, Apr 21 '20 at 20:48
You can change the owner of the directory where the drive is mounted: sudo chown -R luca:luca /media/luca/Storage/. If you do an ls -l now it's probably owned by the root user. — schrodingerscatcuriosity, Apr 21 '20 at 20:52
Thank you! This worked. Please write it as an answer so I can accept it :) — Luca, Apr 21 '20 at 20:59

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '20 at 21:01

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Change the owner of the directory where the drive is mounted to be your own user:

sudo chown -R luca:luca /media/luca/Storage/

answered Apr 21 '20 at 21:01

schrodingerscatcuriosity

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