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.

  • Jack_Burton@lemmy.caOP
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    1 day ago

    Appreciate it. I made a folder called media in root and mounted them there per your suggestion with gnome disk utility. I think part of the problem may have been I didn’t know to install ntfs-3g (only used Ubuntu Studio prior to this which had a bunch of stuff auto installed). I had an issue after mounting where all the drives were read only but a reboot solved it, though I think I installed ntfs-3g right before the reboot so I can’t be sure what made it work. The drives are all owner group root root now but they work at least.

    • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      I can’t tell if you are saying you literally mounted the drive at /media or that you mounted it at a subfolder, example: /media/drive1. The 2nd is the proper way of doing it.

      Either way, glad I could help!

      • Jack_Burton@lemmy.caOP
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        14 hours ago

        Sorry it’s the second. Each drive has a folder in /media that it’s mounted in. Not sure if they’re meant to be root:root though, when I chown nothing changes. I think I might need figure out chmod 755 stuff. It all seems to be working except my server can’t write to any of them, it says they’re read-only. They’re also mounted as fuseblk.