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Help changing mount point in Cachyos (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

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[-] littleomid@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

And your lsblk-f

[-] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

command not found

[-] littleomid@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago

Are you sure? That seems unlikely. Wray does pacman -Qi util-linux say?

Also see this: https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/automount_with_fstab/

[-] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Nevermind, I didn't put a space for -f

[-] littleomid@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago

Then please post the output of lsblk -f.

All you need to do after that is to take the UUID and add it to /etc/fstab.

[-] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Thank you. I've since changed the mount point to /media/user/drive folder with gnome disk utility. They now boot up no problem, but I've hit some other snags haha. The mount point is owned by me but the drives themselves are root with full privileges for all users (not sure if that's normal, chown does nothing). I can manually create, delete, move, etc in the drives but my media server (emby) can access everything but cannot create or modify, it says the drives are read only. I can't remember the command I used to check but the all seem to be rw enabled. I can't change the group to emby from root either, chown seems like it succeeds but permissions don't change. They're also all fuseblk filesystem now.

Everything but the server seems to be working but I don't feel like it's right with permissions. After Ubuntu Studio I thought I'd have a handle on going to arch-based haha, everything else is perfect it's just this drive stuff that's not right.

[-] littleomid@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago

What does ls -l say in the directory where you mounted the drive?

[-] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I've reinstalled Cachy. Still having issues with setting up my emby server. I left the drives in the /run/media/user directory, though the /user folder has a lock on it. I can chown to me, but it doesn't stay after reboot. In fact nothing does, the hello screen pops up every time even when it's switched off and I had to re-do permissions on everything to let the server in. Permissions for the server say they're correct, but in the right-click permissions, the Group, Owner, Others pulldowns are blank and greyed out. This is ls -l from /run/media/user

drwxrwxrwx 1 user user 24576 Dec 18 15:26  Samsung
drwxrwxrwx 1 user user  4096 Aug 21 15:47  Seagate
drwxrwxrwx 1 user user  4096 Dec 17 20:32 'Seagate II'
drwxrwxr-x 1 user user  24576 Dec 18 15:26 'Seagate III'
drwxrwxr-x 1 user user  4096 Dec 17 20:29 'Storage Mark IV'
drwxrwxrwx 1 user user  4096 Nov 29 20:18 'Storage Mark V'

Can't see it here but the first 3 drives names and the last one are highlighted green and I have no idea what that means.

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