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Help changing mount point in Cachyos (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I just installed Cachyos and I'm having trouble with mount points I think. At boot, I need a password to mount sata drives, and whatever permissions I change don't stay after rebooting. From what I can tell, it has to do with the drives mounting on /run/media, and apparently /run is a temp folder or something.

I think I need to change the mount points to something else, like /media (which doesn't exist and I'm hoping I can just create the folder and use it as a mount point?)

fstab is confusing me, can anyone help me with a quick rundown?

Edit: Think I've got it using gnome disk utility. I switched the mounts, everything boots up connected now. Had an issue where I couldn't read or write to the drives tho haha, but seems to have corrected after a reboot ( I think I may have installed ntfs-3g before the reboot). The owner and group for all of them are now root for some reason, but it seems to be working anyway.

Edit 2: If anyone is here for the same issue, I've made another post which is more directed at the issue: NTFS drives. You can find it here https://lemmy.ca/post/57140934

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think I may have installed ntfs-3g before the reboot

Isn’t this the legacy driver? Why do you need it?

…Respectfully, it feels like you’re falling into the classic Arch trap of “messing with too much stuff.”

I mount a whole bunch of NTFS Sata partitions at boot, on CachyOS, and they don’t need a password or FUSE driver package or anything. It just works out of the box. The only thing I chose to mess with was adding a single mount flag in fstab, and only so it plays with Windows permissions better.

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You're probably right. Did your drives mount in /run? That's where mine mounted on initial install which kicked off this whole thing. I read that /run was temp and that's why they need to be manually mounted with password at boot. I had no issues in Ubuntu Studio, and after finally finding the locations in /run I just figured it's how Cachy does it.

I'm debating just reinstalling from scratch and starting over. I must have done something wrong at install.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I just let KDE handle it. I think… it was a long time ago. I’ll turn on my PC and check my fstab in a sec.

But yeah. I’d recommend a fresh install, with the philosophy of “don’t mess with the defaults unless it isn’t working, or you have a very good reason.” As not only are CachyOS defaults pretty good, but they’re set up in a way so the system will maintain itself through updates.

It’s (ironically) very different than my experience with Ubuntu, where I had to manually maintain a bunch of stuff and fight the system packages.