Just installed CachyOS and the drive I used alongside system drive for media\archive storage can't get mounted anymore. It's internal HDD and uses NTFS, I created it on Windows 10 years ago and used all this time from under Mint (no dualboot, only Mint). I did a regular reboot before OS switch and didn't even mount it this time.
While trying to access said drive, dolphin prints that:
An error occurred while accessing 'drive', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /run/media/user/drive: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Where can I start my fixing journey? Where I can look for precise reason it fails?
All components are 5-10 years old if it matters. The other HDD that I formatted under Mint works just fine. It's probably a CachyOS vs NTFS problem.
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I succeed at force-mounting it via ntfs 3g, but it seems it really was a problem with a bad block or something originating from windows. Checks were passed with 0 errors, so I assume it's a little funni M$ gave me with a divorce letter.
Instead of finding a way to force-mount it every time, I tried checking it via WinPE, and it helped remove the cause of errors.
I'm yet to understand what is really behind that, filesystem differences and how OSs work with them, so if you have good articles, please share these.
If adding entries to your using fstab you should probably use UUID's instead of device names.
To get the UUID type
sudo blkid | grep /dev/sdb2where /dev/sdb2 is replaced with your partition name. This should give you the UUID for your partition.Then you can make an entry into your fstab that looks like this.
The reason you want to use UUID's is because the device name /dev/sda, /dev/sdb etc... can change but the UUID of your partition stays the same.