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Help changing mount point in Cachyos
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For managing drives and mount points I usually use
gnome-disk-utilitybecause it makes everything easier and it uses mount options like nofail by default. You can choose whether a drive requires password to mount in there too.Interesting. I just checked, is this right? Unmount > additional partition options > deselect user session defaults > edit mount point to /media? The existing mount point in that section is /mnt/2c148... is that meant to be different from /run/media that it's currently on?
/run/media is for ephemeral mount points (like a removable USB drive). /mnt is for more permanent mount points. Idr what /media is for but I have seen some Linux distros also use it for removable media.
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.
I can't tell if you are saying you literally mounted the drive at
/mediaor 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!
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.
What I usually do is
sudo chown $USER -R /media/drive1No go, can't change it. Gonna start from scratch I think.