Why won’t my third drive automount in Cachyos?

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Asked By CuriousCat92 On

I recently made the jump to Cachyos from Windows, and it's my first real experience with Linux. I'm not dual booting; I only run Cachyos. I have my OS drive, a second drive for games, and a third drive for storage. I followed the wiki to edit the fstab file, which worked for the second drive, but now my third drive won't automount. If I swap the UUIDs, the games drive will mount but the storage drive won't. I can see both drives if I manually reload the daemon and run mount -a, but on reboot, only one of them mounts.

Here's what my fstab entries look like:

```
UUID=cf997ca7-70fc-4297-b6a4-46eec1bf29c1 /run/media/frank btrfs defaults,nofail 0 0
UUID=42291e50-614f-4114-ace3-506e3453ea6e /run/media/frank btrfs defaults,nofail 0 0
```

Also, when I use the lsblk -f command, only the drive listed first shows its size and mountpoint. Could someone help me figure out how to get both drives to automount correctly?

1 Answer

Answered By TechyTurtle55 On

The issue here is that both drives are trying to mount to the same directory: `/run/media/frank`. You need to set unique mount points for each drive. Instead of using the same location, try something like `/run/media/frank/games` for the games drive and `/run/media/frank/storage` for the storage drive.

CuriousCat92 -

Gotcha! Is there a better location than `/run` that you'd recommend, or any specific directories I should avoid?

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