So here is my FR. Under Link to Storage – My Home Assistant add a toggle button to automount drives that will mount the drives based on the drive label (as it does in sambanas add-on).
Mounting drives can VERY much break your system. If the drive mounted brings the backup size bigger than available, for instance, the drive will fill up and the system will crash. If you plug in a memory stick, for instance, with malware, that would cause all kinds of problems. That is why this is not supported and if you do find a way to do it, you will be using an unsupported version of HAOS and you will be on your own when it breaks,
It is absolutely not recommended behavior, however it is not impossible to do.
I feel that the amount of effort it takes to know and understand how to do it is warranted before you be able to have something mounted and decide to take on full support role.
Plus if you really want a drive mounted, install core or another install method where you are in control of the OS.
Using the supported Samba Add-on is the supported and much safer way to transfer files. You can also use one of the SSH Terminal Add-ons to do this.
Seeing there are already multiple ways to do this, I do not believe this is a valid [FR].
I don’t wanna or I don’t like it is not a valid reason.
It would be enough to not make backup possible, after all, the main goal would be to put media on it, not the essential data that needs to be backed up,
similarly to what the “network storage” setting does. Especially knowing that this exists. Which is obviously not the same thing, but equally presents the issue presented here: