[SOLVED] Newly mounted drive names displaying as odd strings of text

Clarryuuto · 2021-08-15 07:13:21

So I have been trying to get my hdd drives to work for a while now and I thought that I got it right this time, but I feel like I'm just walking in circles.

I partitioned my disks thru gdisk and they both have an efi, swap, and filesystem partition. I don't know if this is the right setup that I should have as these were supposed to be used just as "extra storage" but that's what I did.

Mounted the drives and it basically looks like this:

/run/media/user/ff5bd9fc-0cf4-416e-8d2f-3b48fa37f1c1/

and

/run/media/user/e42dd1a0-aa29-455b-98e9-51bf962700fd/

Oh yeah, I should probably mention, that I also had to use chown just to be able to make folders in those. I didn't make any but thought that's worth pointing out

not idea what to do with this honestly

here's my fdisk output just in case:
(the drives in question are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb)

root@Clarryuuto user]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: DE075568-5C4F-46E2-91F9-1E39301816E0
[Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 1050624 1953523711 1952473088 931G Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/sda: 2.73 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors
Disk model: ST3000DM007-1WY1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: C71E3AE0-011A-43BE-AFB0-75F3E1B100B1
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1048576 1046529 511M EFI System
/dev/sda2 1050624 33554432 32503809 15.5G Linux swap
/dev/sda3 33556480 5860533134 5826976655 2.7T Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/sdb: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: ST1000DM003-1SB1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: B63C0633-F6EC-43F3-B66E-A8F387719A55
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 1048576 1046529 511M EFI System
/dev/sdb2 1050624 33554432 32503809 15.5G Linux swap
/dev/sdb3 33556480 1953525134 1919968655 915.5G Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/mapper/luksdev: 931 GiB, 999649443840 bytes, 1952440320 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Setup info:
Kernels: Linux-zen, Linux
Desktop Environment: Kde (x11)

Edit: forgot to put the (quote) in for better readability

Last edited by Clarryuuto (2021-08-15 08:45:43)

jasonwryan · 2021-08-15 07:22:00

For storage drives, you can just write a filesystem: you don;t need anything else. You can also label the drives: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ext3#Assigning_a_label

Clarryuuto · 2021-08-15 07:48:42

jasonwryan wrote:

For storage drives, you can just write a filesystem: you don;t need anything else. You can also label the drives: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ext3#Assigning_a_label

yeah so I did that, but now both of my drives say that they're only 484.6MiB???
I'm only seeing that I have the filesystem partitions now so I'm not sure what could have caused this

oh yeah also these are Ext4s not Ext3s just so we're clear

Last edited by Clarryuuto (2021-08-15 07:49:15)

jasonwryan · 2021-08-15 07:56:29

Blow them away and start again: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ext4#C … filesystem

Clarryuuto · 2021-08-15 08:45:02

jasonwryan wrote:

Blow them away and start again: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ext4#C … filesystem

Forgot to update. Yeah seems like that did it. Thanks!

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#1 2021-08-15 07:13:21

[SOLVED] Newly mounted drive names displaying as odd strings of text

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