you can try this
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /run/media/hydra
reboot and test. if it works remind that it is a dirty-workaround.
the main problem is the ntfs…
the setup as @Aragorn recommends below is the better way but might need some work.
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I dont mind changing the filesystem, as ive to clean the SSD anyway. Should I? But I noticed it also doesnt see the manjaro partition in the same directory.
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 16M 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 1.9G 0 part /run/media/hydra/0a001be9-83af-4bbe-9c23-a4bca902cf61
├─sda4 8:4 0 285.7G 0 part /run/media/hydra/Storage
├─sda5 8:5 0 509M 0 part
├─sda6 8:6 0 167.5G 0 part /run/media/hydra/Manjaro22
└─sda7 8:7 0 10G 0 part
Ive attached the partitions of the SSD
YES ! cleaning up the closet is always the best decission.
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Hii @Hydraknight,
I’d say so. It can only do you good. Get a proper filesystem running.
Shouldn’t be used for anything that is to be permanently mounted. Rather mount it under /mnt. That’s what it’s there for, after all.
See:
followed by:
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I actually have no idea how it mounted to /run. Now that I am resetting the SSD, ill make sure its mounted to /mnt.
Should i format the SSD to ext4?
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Actually, no — /mnt is intended as a temporary mountpoint.
Considering that it’s a filesystem intended as a media server, I would create a mountpoint for it under /srv. On my system here, I use /srv/mmedia for all my multimedia stuff. That way, all user accounts have (read-only) access to it — root has write access, of course.
Time to promote another one of my tutorials… 
It’s udisks2, a plug & play subsystem of systemd.
Don’t — see above. 
That’s a good choice.
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That’s news to me. All my partitions are mounted in /mnt/<subdiectory>. Unless you mean directly, in which case yeah, and I’m sorry for the misunderstanding.
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No, even then still, if you mount something to /mnt directly — which is what /mnt is intended for — then it’ll hide all your other mounts under there, because the subdirectories will no longer be visible.
Read my tutorial(s).
I intend to use the external ssd to store files from windows as well(I have dual booted). Partition manager says ext4 is linux only. Should i consider any other format like ExFAT?
I’ve done so, but I confess that I might have missed something…
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this format will be supported by both systems, so if you still need to use windows with it then it’s a good compromise.
if you do so you can install the package “exfat-utils” that you’ll might need some day
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Create two partitions: one in ext4 and another one in exfat — there are fewer problems with exfat than with ntfs, and GNU/Linux can read and write to exfat.
That way, you can mount the multimedia stuff on the ext4 partition to /srv/mmedia — after creating the mountpoint, of course — and you can mount the exfat partition under your $HOME somewhere.
I just got this error
Error creating file system: Command-line ‘mkfs.exfat -n ‘External Storage’ '/ dev/sda1" exited with non-zero exit status 249:
stdout: °
exFAT format fail!
stderr: ‘input string is too long
*(udisks-error-quark, 0)
How do you suggest I split my 500 gb disk? 350-150? ext4-exfat
your using the partition-manager ? you deleted the existing partition and tried to create a new exfat-partition ? may you tell us in detail what you were doing. the error message without knowing from what application it rised isn’t helpful.
please post the output of
lsblk -o PATH,PTTYPE,PARTTYPE,FSTYPE,PARTTYPENAME
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Sorry, i am using the gnome-disks-utility application for this. I formatted the entire disk and now am trying to create a new partition.
Output of lsblk -o PATH,PTTYPE,PARTTYPE,FSTYPE,PARTTYPENAME:
PATH PTTYPE PARTTYPE FSTYPE PARTTYPENAME
/dev/loop0
/dev/loop1
/dev/loop2
/dev/loop3
/dev/loop4
/dev/loop5
/dev/loop6
/dev/loop7
/dev/loop8
/dev/loop9
/dev/sda dos
/dev/sda1 dos 0x83 Linux
/dev/nvme0n1 gpt
/dev/nvme0n1p1 gpt c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b vfat EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 gpt e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3 gpt ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 ntfs Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 gpt de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac ntfs Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p5 gpt 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 ext4 Linux filesystem
Also, what are these loops? Should they be there?
Use gparted. It’s much better.
Um, you would normally create the partitions first, and then format them.
They are just loopback devices in virtual memory, commonly used for mounting things like Snaps or filesystem images.
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shouldn’t you use gparted ?
attention: if you never used a partition manager in the past then please get some infos about it before using it. there are a lot of helpful basic videos at youtube for example.
gparted should be the choice at gnome
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Okay that worked. What should be the exfat-ext4 split?
Well, that’s up to you… How many more multimedia files are you looking to store, and just how much space do you want to share with Mickeysoft Windblows?
Ever since i installed Manjaro ive been hooked so i doubt i will be using Mycrowloft Windoze much, so… 350-150 sounds good?