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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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[-] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day 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.ca 1 points 1 day 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.

[-] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

What I usually do is sudo chown $USER -R /media/drive1

[-] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago

No go, can't change it. Gonna start from scratch I think.

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