I just moved over to Garuda Arch linux from ubuntu 18.04. I can see the drives listed in dolphin but can’t access them. lsblk shows them still again I can’t mount them. I’ve tried chown to change ownership, adding one of the drives manually to fstab manually. No go. Any ideas?
Switch to Manjaro?
And if you really want to troubleshoot this post some logs, at least journalctl.
But probably you don’t have ntfs-3g installed.
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Yes, ntfs-3g is installed. this the error I get in dolphin: An error occurred while accessing ‘Backup’, the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred: Not authorized to perform operation.
This is the pertentent line in Journalctl: Nov 27 11:03:29 Reaper dolphin[14114]: inotify_add_watch(/var/lib/samba/usershare) failed: (Permission denied)
What has samba to do with it? I don’t use dolphin but its weird.
Do you see proper filesystem when yo go to sudo gparted?
Also you should have something like Disks, there should be option to mount it.
But regardless of anyhing:
sudo mount /dev/disk /dir
Has to work, or your kernel does not support it or your filesystem i broken (checkdisk helps sometimes)
this appears to be on a network.
If using dolphin, mount it manually and input user credentials
To mount manually in Dolphin, access the Network folder and at the location input bar use :
smb://<IPOFSERVER>/<SHARENAME>
It should then give you a popup where you can input your credentials for the share
(apparently not a network drive? oh well, leaving for others in case they need it)
I’ve tried mounting with : sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 / but All i end up with it the files on my os (m.2)drive and not the (sata)data drive.
But I cant see anywhere samba share mentioned. Also I thought before it was anout NTFS partition, im lost…
Try this:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /drivename -o uid=0,gid=0,noatime,umask=000,locale=en_US.utf8
edit:
manpage for ntfs-3g to see the options
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I’ll give that a try.
You have to specify some other directory, like:
sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt
you can put those options jdfthetech wrote
good catch, didn’t notice they were trying to mount to root
thank you that did it. Figures it was syntax. it was the /mnt at the end, I was using /backup (drive label) as there was no folder to mount to.
Great. Just still don’t have idea why samba was involved in any of this 
Anyway after reboot that will go away. To make permanent you have to add this to your fstab as last line.
And instead /dev/sda1 use UUID=“zzzz-zzzzz-zzzzz” or PARTUUID=“xxxx-xxx-xxx”
Of course replace those zzz and xxx with actual ID’s from lsblk -f.
i have no idea. Now that I have the one i needed online I can wipe the other two drives and format to a standard linux format. Maybe install zfs and build a raid.