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date = '2026-08-02T20:58:52-04:00'
title = 'fstab guide'
draft = true
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When I was but a burgeoning console junkie cutting my teeth in Mint, my first few forays with mounting a new drive had proven to be a struggle.  Sure - LLMs exist now, why bother writing this? 

Why not. 

This brief tutorial should be cross-flavor, meaning it should work on Debian-, Fedora-, and Arch-based systems alike. For today's guide we'll be using CachyOS, adjust for your package manager accordingly! :) 

## STOP TALKING AND GIVE ME INFO

To begin, if you don't already have it, I like to use Gnome's Disk Utility on most of my distributions. Install it with:

```bash
sudo pacman -Syyu
sudo pacman -S gnome-disk-utility
```

Then we leave that terminal open to the side, and open up what we just installed. You can either search "Disks" in your app launcher, or run:

```bash
gnome-disk-utility
```