Mount Disks and/ or Network Shares in Arch Manjaro

Just documenting how to mount disks and/ or Network Shares with fstab in Arch Manjaro.

Mount Harddrive with fstab

If you installed arch Manjaro there should be an fstab file generated

# Open fstab and check it's contents

sudo nano /etc/fstab

It should look something like this

# Static information about the filesystems
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system>                            <dir>        <type>    <options>       <dump>  <pass>
UUID=64FC-A341                            /boot/efi      vfat    umask=0077       0 2
UUID=e5f34287-6784-40dd-8121-9fa48a83579c swap           swap    defaults,noatime 0 0
UUID=20ee6f35-7bea-4a65-92cd-578ec41acf71 /              ext4    defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=25746cdc-a314-4b60-ae3d-9854a9bc3d56 /home          ext4    defaults,noatime 0 2

Add new disk

Now let's say i just added a new disk.
How to add it

# Check the dev name of the new disk

lsblk -f

# Now make a partition on the new disk
Use --zero to empty the partition table and change the ? to your drive adress

cfdisk --zero /dev/sd?

Select label type "gpt" when prompted and press enter

Select Free space
        Enter to assign all the free space to this Partition
        Select Type
        Select Linux filesystem

Save the changes
        Select Write
        Input yes, not just y, when prompted
        Select Quit

# Now to format the partition with ext4

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sd?1

Now we have a partition, we can use blkid to get the UUID number

# Get UUID of partition

blkid

Copy the UUID and let's add it to fstab

# Open fstab

sudo nano /etc/fstab

# Paste the UUID to fstab
Remove the "" quotes around the UUID

# Static information about the filesystems
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system>                            <dir>        <type>    <options>       <dump>  <pass>
UUID=64FC-A341                            /boot/efi      vfat    umask=0077       0 2
UUID=e5f34287-6784-40dd-8121-9fa48a83579c swap           swap    defaults,noatime 0 0
UUID=20ee6f35-7bea-4a65-92cd-578ec41acf71 /              ext4    defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=25746cdc-a314-4b60-ae3d-9854a9bc3d56 /home          ext4    defaults,noatime 0 2

UUID=af1bc8d8-4f1c-4c7d-b366-a6015e8b10c8

Now come up with a mount name and where you want to mount it (copy the rest (type, options, dump, pass) from /home)

/mntname       ext4    defaults,noatime 0 2

So now fstab should look like this

# Static information about the filesystems
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system>                             <dir>         <type>    <options>   <dump>  <pass>
UUID=64FC-A341                            /boot/efi      vfat    umask=0077       0 2
UUID=e5f34287-6784-40dd-8121-9fa48a83579c  swap           swap    defaults,noatime 0 0
UUID=20ee6f35-7bea-4a65-92cd-578ec41acf71  /              ext4    defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=25746cdc-a314-4b60-ae3d-9854a9bc3d56 /home          ext4    defaults,noatime 0 2

UUID=af1bc8d8-4f1c-4c7d-b366-a6015e8b10c8  /mntname       ext4    defaults,noatime 0 2

Now to mount everything listed in fstab run:

sudo mount -a

Now you should be able to acces the drive

cd /mntname

Some Extra info:
By placing it in fstab it will auto mount at boot.

To unmount everything

sudo umount -a

Mount samba share with fstab

This explains how to mount a samba share with fstab.
Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Samba

# First install samba for CIFS
Needed to acces samba shares

sudo pacman -S samba

Before you can start the service, make an conf.

# Create a conf file for samba

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

And paste this in the smb.conf

log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log

# Make a file to store the credentials to acces the share

sudo nano /etc/samba/share

And paste this in the file
Fill in a username and password with acces to the share you want to mount

username=
password=

# Enable and start Samba
Enable samba to start at boot and start it

sudo systemctl enable --now smb

# Create the folder you want to mount to 
Example: /mnt/share

mkdir -p /mnt/share

# Edit fstab

sudo nano /etc/fstab

And add the share as following
I had to add file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777, because my sabnzbd couldn't write to it.

//ipaddress/share /mnt/share cifs credentials=/etc/samba/share,_netdev,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

# Mount the share

sudo mount -a

# Check if the share is mounted

cd /mnt/share

Reboot and check if it auto mounts at boot


If it doesn't auto mount after reboot, do the following

# Edit NetworkManager-wait-online.service

sudo systemctl edit NetworkManager-wait-online.service

And paste the following between the 2 lines at the top

### Anything between here and the comment below will become the new contents of the file

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/nm-online -q -t 30

### Lines below this comment will be discarded

# Enable the service to start at boot

sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service

What this does is that it waits up until 30 seconds, until the NetworkManager is fully Online, to mount the shares