Beginner question: Ext4 Partition is readonly

The thing is that /run itself is a tmpfs, and that anything mounted to a directory under /run is therefore only an ad hoc solution. Better is to create a static mountpoint for the partition and add it to /etc/fstab.

If the partition contains only files that are owned by yourself, then I would suggest creating the mountpoint ─ as yourself, not with sudo ─ inside your $HOME, e.g. /home/basementmedia/data.

Then, run… :arrow_down:

lsblk -o UUID /dev/sda3

… and write down (or copy) the UUID. Then, add a record for it to /etc/fstab:arrow_down:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

The record would look something like this:arrow_down:

UUID=the-UUID-you-copied  /home/basementmedia/data   ext4   auto,nofail,defaults   0   0

Save the file with Ctrl+O and leave the editor with Ctrl+X. If you reboot now, then the partition will automatically be mounted to /home/basementmedia/data.

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