Universal Blue•6d ago

NVMe M.2 drive not consistently mounting on startup

So I've got 6 drives plugged into my unholy mess of a machine. 3 standard HDD's of varying sizes, 2 NVMe M.2 SSD's (one boot/root, the other just storage), and a 2.5" SSD. During my initial setup, I used the Partition Manager to set the mount point for each of the non-root drives under /var/mnt/, the same way I did in Nobara a few months ago (though on non-atomic I believe I just did directly under /mnt/). For whatever reason, the storage M.2 drive occasionally fails to mount on start up (I'd say about 50/50). It's frustrating for Steam as that's where most of my games are, and mounting while the computer is already started, all the games seem to need to re-do their vulkan shaders for whatever reason. I'm hesitant to point to a hardware issue at this point as it was working flawlessly before I installed Bazzite, and I am able to immediately mount it no issues when it does not auto mount. The only changes between Nobara and switching to Bazzite is that I installed and freshly formatted a new M.2 NVMe in the old Nobara's drives slot (which is currently sitting on my desk), the drive in question was never touched. Is there a better way I should be setting the mount points, or what additional info is needed to help me troubleshoot this? MOBO is also less then 4 months old.

Solution:

thats your problem, you are not mounting using uuid

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8 Replies

asen23•6d ago

post content of /etc/fstab

BuollOP•6d ago

message.txt

BuollOP•6d ago

Interesting, the drive in question is 'WD_Black_M2_2TB' is mounted twice? Under two different partitions? df -h for giggles:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p3  3.7T   86G  3.6T   3% /sysroot
devtmpfs        4.0M     0  4.0M   0% /dev
tmpfs            16G  208M   16G   2% /dev/shm
efivarfs        128K   16K  108K  13% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
tmpfs           6.2G  2.7M  6.2G   1% /run
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-network-generator.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-udev-load-credentials.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev-early.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-sysctl.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-vconsole-setup.service
tmpfs            16G   15M   16G   1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p3  3.7T   86G  3.6T   3% /var
/dev/nvme0n1p2  974M  425M  482M  47% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p3  3.7T   86G  3.6T   3% /var/home
overlay         3.7T   86G  3.6T   3% /usr/share/sddm/themes
/dev/nvme0n1p1  599M   13M  587M   3% /boot/efi
/dev/sdd1       120G   12G  106G  11% /var/mnt/850_Pro_128GB
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
/dev/nvme1n1p1  1.9T  1.3T  579G  69% /var/mnt/WD_Black_M2_2TB
/dev/sda1       932G  351G  581G  38% /var/mnt/WD_Blue_1TB
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service
/dev/sdb1       5.5T  145G  5.4T   3% /var/mnt/WD_Black_5TB
/dev/sdc1       2.8T  464G  2.3T  17% /var/mnt/WD_Black_3TB
tmpfs           3.1G  4.8M  3.1G   1% /run/user/1000

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p3  3.7T   86G  3.6T   3% /sysroot
devtmpfs        4.0M     0  4.0M   0% /dev
tmpfs            16G  208M   16G   2% /dev/shm
efivarfs        128K   16K  108K  13% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
tmpfs           6.2G  2.7M  6.2G   1% /run
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-network-generator.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-udev-load-credentials.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev-early.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-sysctl.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-vconsole-setup.service
tmpfs            16G   15M   16G   1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p3  3.7T   86G  3.6T   3% /var
/dev/nvme0n1p2  974M  425M  482M  47% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p3  3.7T   86G  3.6T   3% /var/home
overlay         3.7T   86G  3.6T   3% /usr/share/sddm/themes
/dev/nvme0n1p1  599M   13M  587M   3% /boot/efi
/dev/sdd1       120G   12G  106G  11% /var/mnt/850_Pro_128GB
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
/dev/nvme1n1p1  1.9T  1.3T  579G  69% /var/mnt/WD_Black_M2_2TB
/dev/sda1       932G  351G  581G  38% /var/mnt/WD_Blue_1TB
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service
/dev/sdb1       5.5T  145G  5.4T   3% /var/mnt/WD_Black_5TB
/dev/sdc1       2.8T  464G  2.3T  17% /var/mnt/WD_Black_3TB
tmpfs           3.1G  4.8M  3.1G   1% /run/user/1000

Solution

asen23•6d ago

thats your problem, you are not mounting using uuid

asen23•6d ago

follow the guide https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/Auto-Mounting_Secondary_Drives/

Auto-Mounting Secondary Drives - Bazzite Documentation

Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.

BuollOP•6d ago

UUID=5050f061-b437-4c7e-a051-1fb47379e5f5   /                          btrfs   subvol=root,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2   0 0 
UUID=952a9317-4c9a-4def-ac49-4a4e22660b2e   /boot                      ext4    defaults                                                                                     1 2 
UUID=1D5C-451F                              /boot/efi                  vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt                                                                   0 2 
UUID=5050f061-b437-4c7e-a051-1fb47379e5f5   /home                      btrfs   subvol=home,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2   0 0 
UUID=5050f061-b437-4c7e-a051-1fb47379e5f5   /var                       btrfs   subvol=var,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2    0 0 
UUID=1d5c70d4-f33f-4106-ace1-463628fbf59b   /var/mnt/WD_Black_M2_2TB   btrfs   nofail                                                                                       0 0 
UUID=56be7a7a-4a23-493d-9e8a-3a975d08bb57   /var/mnt/WD_Blue_1TB       btrfs   nofail                                                                                       0 0 
UUID=eec8e669-c499-4cfc-8e64-b8ae64222c76   /var/mnt/WD_Black_5TB      btrfs   nofail                                                                                       0 0 
UUID=983d558d-8646-42a5-ab39-d3f9c2bb5429   /var/mnt/WD_Black_3TB      btrfs   nofail                                                                                       0 0 
UUID=bcf81af9-dbf0-46b8-9ffb-5eaecd769550   /var/mnt/850_Pro_128GB     btrfs   nofail                                                                                       0 0 
/dev/nvme0n1p1                              /var/mnt/WD_Black_M2_2TB   btrfs   nofail                                                                                       0 0

UUID=5050f061-b437-4c7e-a051-1fb47379e5f5   /                          btrfs   subvol=root,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2   0 0 
UUID=952a9317-4c9a-4def-ac49-4a4e22660b2e   /boot                      ext4    defaults                                                                                     1 2 
UUID=1D5C-451F                              /boot/efi                  vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt                                                                   0 2 
UUID=5050f061-b437-4c7e-a051-1fb47379e5f5   /home                      btrfs   subvol=home,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2   0 0 
UUID=5050f061-b437-4c7e-a051-1fb47379e5f5   /var                       btrfs   subvol=var,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,discard=async,compress-force=zstd:1,space_cache=v2    0 0 
UUID=1d5c70d4-f33f-4106-ace1-463628fbf59b   /var/mnt/WD_Black_M2_2TB   btrfs   nofail                                                                                       0 0 
UUID=56be7a7a-4a23-493d-9e8a-3a975d08bb57   /var/mnt/WD_Blue_1TB       btrfs   nofail                                                                                       0 0 
UUID=eec8e669-c499-4cfc-8e64-b8ae64222c76   /var/mnt/WD_Black_5TB      btrfs   nofail                                                                                       0 0 
UUID=983d558d-8646-42a5-ab39-d3f9c2bb5429   /var/mnt/WD_Black_3TB      btrfs   nofail                                                                                       0 0 
UUID=bcf81af9-dbf0-46b8-9ffb-5eaecd769550   /var/mnt/850_Pro_128GB     btrfs   nofail                                                                                       0 0 
/dev/nvme0n1p1                              /var/mnt/WD_Black_M2_2TB   btrfs   nofail                                                                                       0 0

So I've got them all mounted as UUID, that last entry makes me nervous. I was going to manually delete it but I don't want to brick anything

asen23•6d ago

Deleting extra mount shouldn't brick anything Just don't touch the first 5

BuollOP•6d ago

Thanks for your help! Marked as solved

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