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Help changing mount point in Cachyos
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this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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Honest critique: if you want to use arch, learn to install it manually first. I don’t like the fact that Cachy advertises itself as beginner friendly because it obviously is not.
Hit the arch wiki and learn how to mount, his file system works etc. also for love of God, stop chowning/777ing all your files 😀
Haha I didn't 777 anything, that's how they mounted as root after changing the mount point. But you're totally right, Cachy gave me the impression it would be a simple setup.
That said, I'm hoping you can answer a quick question. I've reinstalled again, changed mount points with gnome disk utility to /mnt/drivename, and they mount at boot but they're all owned by root now. I'm able to access everything (I'm assuming due to 777) and my server can see everything using sudo setfacl -m user:emby:rwx /mnt (~~but this doesn't stay after reboot and I have to do it again~~).
The server has an option to auto organize files, but it can't access the folder I use for it, it says the drive is read only (I can create/delete in it so it must be rw).
After everything I've learned, I think I need to dive into learning fstab and permissions properly, but honestly I'm pretty overwhelmed. At this point, would you say permissions and fstab are where I need to focus? Fstab because drives mount as root and permissions for, well, permissions? I'm just looking for guidance on where to start to solve this myself.
EDIT: I think the issue is that the drives are ntfs so they mount as root automatically. Does this sound right? Unmount in gnome disk utility and change mount options back to auto. Then
mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sdxY /mnt/drivenameIf this is correct, I'm still unsure about the fact that gnome disk utility made changes to fstab and I don't know if that will cause issues?