Issue installing home drive on separate hard drive

Issues & Assistance
1

Hi everyone,

Been lurking around in forums and distro hopping for quite some time and finally decided cachyos to be my new home. Being new to linux I do not understand clearly how partitions from multiple hard drives can be used together.

What I am attempting to do is to have cachyos on small and old sata SSD and have all my games on faster NVME. NVME also has windows installed and has two partition, one for windows games and one for linux games.

Issue I have is to mount the Linux game partition automatically when I boot cachyos. Reason to have this setup is to ensure wine and protontricks can find this games partition to allow me to install mod managers.

2

Read up on /etc/fstab. Arch wiki should be a good place to start.

3

Did attempt the fstab method but was not able to log in after adding the partition entry in the fstab file.

This is what I did:

  • Find drive ID (to copy UUID) : sudo blkid
  • List drives: lsblk
  • Create Mount Point: sudo mkdir /mnt/mydrive
  • Edit fstab file: sudo vi /etc/fstab
  • Add entry to fstab with UUID for the drive located earlier example: UUID=b8e4a1f6-6e8f-4f6e-8b6e-6e8f4f6e8b6e /mnt/mydrive ext4 defaults 0 0
  • Mount drive: sudo mount -a
  • Verify drive mounted correctly: df - h
4

Did systemctl throw an alert saying you should run systemctl daemon-reload after running mount -a? Otherwise, a reboot should show success with the volume mounting successfully assuming grub is happy.

5

I was being dumb and found the solution. Was using ext4 in my command instead of btrfs.