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.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    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.caOP
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      12 hours ago

      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
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        12 hours 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.