I recently installed CachyOS and went about setting up fstab as I normally would. For some reason one of my HDD's is not mounting on start as it's supposed to. The one called 'Media III' is the one that won't mount automatically. I can mount it just fine in Dolphin. None of the solutions I have tried seem to work. I'd be grateful for any help offered. Thank you!
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID=2F40-2396 /boot vfat defaults,umask=0077 0 2
UUID=b1d8992a-192f-4f8a-ba0e-fc438f740670 / btrfs subvol=/@,defaults,noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache=v2,commit=120 0 0
UUID=b1d8992a-192f-4f8a-ba0e-fc438f740670 /home btrfs subvol=/@home,defaults,noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache=v2,commit=120 0 0
UUID=b1d8992a-192f-4f8a-ba0e-fc438f740670 /root btrfs subvol=/@root,defaults,noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache=v2,commit=120 0 0
UUID=b1d8992a-192f-4f8a-ba0e-fc438f740670 /srv btrfs subvol=/@srv,defaults,noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache=v2,commit=120 0 0
UUID=b1d8992a-192f-4f8a-ba0e-fc438f740670 /var/cache btrfs subvol=/@cache,defaults,noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache=v2,commit=120 0 0
UUID=b1d8992a-192f-4f8a-ba0e-fc438f740670 /var/tmp btrfs subvol=/@tmp,defaults,noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache=v2,commit=120 0 0
UUID=b1d8992a-192f-4f8a-ba0e-fc438f740670 /var/log btrfs subvol=/@log,defaults,noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache=v2,commit=120 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/3da7d8ac-60c8-4378-ba5d-c7546d5ed4ca /media/user/Games auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/20e5f943-366a-49b4-92c3-fbe013ebb010 /media/user/Media auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/ceaf9b7c-3fb5-4ec1-bf77-c3e45b452d07 /media/user/Media\040II auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/979e1457-7431-4f9c-a5b1-9ce062a6a55a /media/user/Blu-ray auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/27db861a-84ee-4091-aa61-4fda057c5da3 /media/user/Games\040II auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/eb9efe45-bf11-4f30-b9de-26456c5459e6 /media/user/More\040Files auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/a66e2ba8-d4b5-4564-9e4e-c29f34298cad /media/user/Media\040III auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x5000cca0b0e052b0-part1 /media/user/Backup auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
I solved the issue. In case anyone else ever has this problem add
x-systemd.mount-timeout=60to your corresponding drive in /etc/fstab. I guess CachyOS doesn't like to wait for slow hard disks.Could be slow due to a poor power connection. Or just a slow drive, but worth reseating the connector to check.
I think it's because it's an 8TB drive at 86% capacity. Everything seems fine in smart. I had issues with cables before which led to a bunch of errors in smart. It might be worth checking anyway however. I was planning on adding another drive anyway. Might as well swap the cable.