@borosilicate@lemmy.dbzer0.com
2026-09-17 11:42 UTC
You’re going to be ruthlessly working with fstab and mounts. Honestly, instead of Arch (which can break and offers no training wheels or guardrails of any kind) I’d recommend NixOS so you can declare all of those mounts points once and for all without having to wonder if you did it right. Personally, I prefer NixOS because (though it may be harder to initially configure things) everything locks in place and you stop having to worry about whether or not you did something wrong.
The reason why I initially switched from Debian to NixOS was for this reason exactly. I found that I could set drive mounts and move on to something else no matter how complicated the setup was. If it compiles, it’s usually a valid config. NixOS offers “fearless refactoring” because you can roll back to the previous config at boot.
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@Azzu@leminal.space 2026-09-17 11:56
Thanks, but I’m not looking for a different distribution
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@hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 2026-09-17 12:53
If rocking KDE with Arch, use KDE Partition Manager to manage mount points. I mean, I still edit my fstab. And it’s super easy to do anyways. As an Arch user for multiple years, I did pick up NixOS on a spre machine to toy around with for the learning experience; I can say, I do not like that design choice to be fully config based. It was more pain for initial setup. And for my usecase where I am constantly making changes, it didn’t make sense for me to use.