So, I have a reoccurring issue that I have no idea how to actually go about describing (I’ve been using Garuda Dragonized KDE for a week and a half now, I’ve also been using a Linux distro for a week and a half now) and I’m running into an issue every time I reboot my computer.
I have 3 hard drives in my computer, a 2TB SSD ((games) and gaming, this is where steam is installed), a 2TB HDD, (I’ve had for far too long, and just use as the place down loads and such go, Labeled (Aux)iliary) and my Boot drive a 256GB SSD. I cleanly installed Garuda by deleting my Win10 install and just swapping in Garuda, I didn’t mess with the other 2 drives. Every time I start the computer it improperly mounts the 2 2TB drives. I fix this by speaking the proper rites:
Sudo dmesg | grep -c2 sd(XYZ),
sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g gparted,
sudo ntfsfic -d /dev/sd(XYZ)#,
chmod +x
Now, this works everytime, but, the issue is I shouldn’t have to fix my drives Everytime, this may all be magic as far as I’m concerned, but, I’m a sorcerer, y’all are the wizards here, so I’m hoping yall can help me out on finding a fix so that I’m not constantly warring with the arcane
Don’t expect NTFS drives to work well in Linux; ntfsfix will only do so much. It is recommended to fix NTFS drive errors using Windows instead, but using the drives with Linux is still only going to get you headaches. Eventually you will not be able to mount these drives. This has been warned about quite a lot on these forums. Misc tips for avoiding computer problems - #6 by tbg
Backup the data and format the drive(s) to a Linux friendly format. If they are just secondary storage, something like ext4 will do.
Edit:
Also be sure to include the garuda-inxi output when opening a topic in Issues & Assistance as the template requests (even if you don’t think it is relevant).
If you are planning to have games back on there for linux, ext4 should be fine for most cases. If the drives are SSDs, you could go with btrfs if you wanted as it might be preferable to you.
Here is a post about the pros and cons of both ext4 and btrfs for secondary storage gaming SSD drives: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/17fpub0/comment/k6dw52l/
Edit: be sure to back up any game save files that don’t have cloud save features on Steam. I haven’t tried it yet, but ludusavi should help with backups for game saves from multiple store fronts. It’s available from the chaotic-aur so you can install it using: