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Arch Linux Drive Mounting Problem 2017-03-10 12:41:45 Post No. 59325346
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Just switched to arch linux but cant mount drives that I was previously using in windows even to format them. Says something about windows cache preventing it. I no longer have windows installed.
How do I fix this and format without windows.
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>>59325346
>Arch Linux
>Problem
That's normal.
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>>59325346
Assuming the drives have a filesystem arch is compatible with, you would mount the drives partition withsu -c "mount /dev/sdXY /home"
where X is the letter identifier of your drive and Y is the number of the partition which you are attempting to mount. You cannot mount an entire device (like sda or sdb) it must be a partition of a drive (like sda1, sdb3).
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>>59325346
>Debugging problems: The OS
Isn't this what you wanted
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>>59325346
install ntfs-3g package, pleb.
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Alright I managed to get it mounted but how do I partition it and format it and all that shit.
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...Found out how to do it, nevermind
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This is literally your life now and it won't change. Every single fucking shit needs 2 hrs of fixing before it works. Save yourself some time and install a useful OS Kim
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If you want to do away with your windows partition, then you do:
# parted
(parted) p
<your partitions will appear; 3 are windows partitions>
(parted) rm <each windows partiton>
free space for you to partition as you see fit. I'm actually having the opposite problem: I accidentally fucked up my Windows boot partition and now I need help fixing that.
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>>59325554
that makes no sense
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>>59325346
why do you even use linux if u don't know any shit about cli ? use ntfsfix, get ntfsprogs and ntfs-3g and use #ntfsfix /dev/sda1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 making this easy for u so u can remove just one number when u copy paste.
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>>59325792
he still can use linux but i wouldn't recommend Arch.
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>>59325554
Why do you mount a Drive when you want to format and partition it?
Seriously go back to Wangbloaws or switch to a GNU/Linux Distribution for non autistic people.
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Seriously if you need help with simple stuff like this that's already thoroughly documented in arch wiki you need to switch to another distro
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The Arch wiki is shit at explaining things.
The Gentoo guide is better.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full
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>>59326529
Wasn't what I meant to link.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation
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