I want to auto-mount a disk with the folder named Lord Lance but whenever I try to do so I get a parsing error. If I remove the space and change it to lordlance then I get no such issues.
I tried changing it to single quote and using character escaping (without quotes) but to no avail.
Side-question: Why is /mnt/ recommended as the location for external hard disk (as the name might suggest) but Manjaro loads the disk in /run/media/(user)?
/etc/fstab is a flat database, with each line being a record and each space-separated item a field in the record. Therefore, it is best not to have anything in there that contains spaces.
systemd mounts all removable and non-system storage under /run/media. But /mnt is the preferred mountpoint for the manual mounting of removable storage or disk partitions that are not part of the system.
P.S.: This has nothing to do with the kernel. Moved to Support.
/etc/fstab is a flat database, with each line being a record and each space-separated item a field in the record. Therefore, it is best not to have anything in there that contains spaces.
Oh so basically I am forced to use underscores to demarcate words?
P.S.: This has nothing to do with the kernel. Moved to Support.
True. I didnāt know which sub-category it fit into. Thanks.
First of all, ntfs as the filesystem type will make your NTFS mount read-only. If you need write access, you should use ntfs-3g.
Secondly, defaults is meaningless when using an NTFS mount. It wonāt apply the proper permissions for that volume to the mountpoint in the virtual filesystem layer. Seeā¦
Secondly, defaults is meaningless when using an NTFS mount. It wonāt apply the proper permissions for that volume to the mountpoint in the virtual filesystem layer. Seeā¦
man mount
Right itās a 1600 line document. Could you tell me what exactly I should be searching for?
you refer to the suggestion to use āGnome-Disksā?
It may only matter in that when you install that program, a lot of GTK and Gnome dependencies might be needed and you end up installing a lot of stuff just to be able to use that one program.
But I did not check - try it and see?
When you select to install it, you will be shown everything that will be installed along with it before you commit to the action.
Perhaps there is a KDE/Plasma native equivalent - I donāt know.
Thereās a section pertaining to filesystem-specific mount options, and NTFS is included.
I did some Googling and changed my fstab line to: UUID=A2F647BFF6479309 /mnt/Lord\040Lance ntfs-3g defaults,nls=utf8,umask=000,dmask=077,fmask=077,uid=1000,gid=1001 0 0
I am the only person on the PC so permission for others and of the group does not matter. I assume UTF-8 is the standard and my gid was 1001 according to the Terminal.
Ha Gnome Disks was indeed much easier and the options it set automatically were also quite different. Since I was recommended to use it, I assume the default settings are A-OK.
