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Query regarding the mounting of internal HDD/SSD at boot, and their display on the desktop.
Equipment: Motherboard; ASUS Maximus IX Hero. RAM; 32GB.
System drive NVMe (2) one running Linux Mint plus 5 internal storage HDD formatted ext4.
Arch installed manually by my script on a laptop via ssh to NVMe, using btrfs with subvolumes.
Desktop is Cinnamon because I am familiar with it, so file manager is nemo.
Everything was satisfactory.
On the desktop I get a “Computer” directory (folder) I can go into this and mount drives manually; no problem. However on the Mint installation I can have all the storage drives mounted and displayed on the desktop on boot, which I find convenient. Therefore I wanted to have the same on the Arch installation.
First experiment: I added one of the drives to fstab manually, checked OK, and rebooted.
Result: No display on the desktop. Opening “Computer” there was only “File System” (the rood directory) Failure. The disk had mounted (lsblk)
I used the # in fstab to inactivate my efforts and tried again.
Reboot produced the failed state. Shutdown and restart restored the situation
Second experiment: I installed gnome-disk-utils giving me the GUI “Disks” which I had used to this purpose on “Mint”, and rebooted and got the same failure. No icons and the disk mounted (lsblk)
This time rebooting returned me to the failed state, and shutdown and restart also returned the failed state.
Thanks to “Timeshift” I was able to restore to the original satisfactory condition.
So, I am at a loss to understand this at all. I am obviously missing something very simple and I must be very stupid. Can anyone help please?
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Not a cinnamon user but you will find better help in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=18
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I'm sure this is not an fstab problem. There may be an option in settings for displaying that.
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