Messed up automount folder, need help fixing fstab
Mounted my SSD in /var/games instead of var/mnt/games by mistake, now getting this error:
mount: Partition: unknown filesystem type '/var/games'
I'd like to fix this before messing up my system even more. Attaching my fstab file
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remove the first line
and redo the automounting
in the text file?
New Partition /var/games defaults
just delete this?
yes remove that line
can I leave it empty?
UUID=1ca6264c-19de-4d90-9689-ce3060a3b704 /var/mnt/M2\040SSD btrfs compress-force=zstd:3,lazytime,commit=120,space_cache=v2 0 0
the \ after M2 is facing the wrong way or is otherwise a mistake
yes
you'll want to mount it back at /var/mnt/games as wellnot sure where the \ comes from
what is
ls /var/mnt
created this folder after realizing I wasnt using the good folder to automount
\040 is interpreted as a space. makes sense nowyep, TIL lol
oh well, same here haha
I avoid spaces in mount points just to save a headache hah
I can change it
all freshly new to linux, first time mounting something etc
also you should create /var/mnt/games before mounting there
m2 ssd isnt good?
it should be games?
oh you want that
what do you want it to be?
dont really care
if it's your games drive,
games is finejust want to mount my m2 somewhere and dump all big software on it
mostly going to be games
the name itself is personal preference
change that line to be
/var/mnt/games then
that should work right?
i'm going to tentatively say yes because nothing looks broken
defaults,compress-force=zstd:3,noatime,lazytime,commit=120,space_cache=v2,nofail is the recommendedno more errors
copied the text in the guide, I should add nofail?
nofail should be added by the dont prevent checkbox
you can check by
cat /etc/fstabyeah ok it adds the box
if I mount an NTFS HDD, will I get troubles?
its all my movies, music, iso etc
basically just raw storage
if you want to avoid corruption issue, mount it readonly
but then I couldnt use it to download more things onto it 😦
you can use it and fix it once in a while or just use something like exfat
do note you cant store games on exfat and ntfs
dont want to store games on it, only "read" files
everything else will go to my ssds
yeah but the ntfs driver in linux is still janky
ok, maybe I'll reformat it then
i think the journal can be broken once in a while
I'll try using it a little and backup the important part lol
thanks guys!
mainly wine/proton that corrupts it and you placing files with illegal characters on the drive
more specifically, the prefixes use symlinks which are not compatible with exfat, and certain characters are not permitted with NTFS (
: in the drive letter symlinks). Proton uses a lot of symlinks for individual files as well