u/Pyromaniacal13

Today I spent a fair amount of time wondering why my geothermal power build I'm working on kept getting filled with sour gas. Turns out if a material is placed in a build order and not immediately built, it will heat up. I kept having the plastic from my insulated wire flash into sour gas because the diamond tiles it was placed inside were too hot.

Build your insulated wires on high priority.

I have spent ten hours fighting with Konsole and the wiki, reinstalled the OS three times, and failed to mount the drive while allowing Steam to download to the drive every single time.

I gave up.

I was debating a different distro or even goung back to my old Windows PC because I was clearly incapable of following what was claimed to be the simplest and safest instructions. I decided that, since I'd clearly failed to escape the specter of AI, might as well ask the parasite infesting Google if it could hallucinate me into a deeper pit.

Three steps. That's it. I needed to clarify I was on KDE Partition manager, and it gave me instructions. I found another issue, and it walked me through the permission trap.

I'm downloading onto my secondary drive now.

[Use this.](https://linuxbsdos.com/2025/03/31/add-automount-hard-disk-linux-using-kde-partition-manager/) For the sake of your continued sanity, use this. The guide should not be chucking you in the deep end with the CLI and nebulous commands when the default runtime has a program with a gui. It should not claim that the simplest method involves splitting your CLI into two windows so you can copy your UUID from one half and paste into the text document you're writing in the other half. The guide needs one hell of an overhaul.

As the title says, I'm trying to automount an ext4 drive using the CachyOS Guide here. It has failed every time with the message "Invalid unit name "home-[REDACTED]-Storage Drive 1.mount" escaped as "home-[REDACTED]-Storage\x20Drive\X201.mount". If I try to mount without the \x20 sections, it fails as well, reading Unit home-[REDACTED]-Storage.service does not exist. I've replaced my username with [REDACTED], it is not my username in the system.

I do not understand what I am doing wrong. I have followed the above guide to the letter. I continue to fail every time. The drive has been freshly formatted in ext4 all in one partition. I have recreated the mount file six times, carefully making sure everything is spelled correctly. I have made sure the mount file is in line with the guide. I have saved the file. I don't know why it doesn't work.

My OS is up to date. I have installed the gaming packages and some flatpacks for Discord, Steam, VLC player, and Thunderbird. I have installed nothing else.

Should I not be trying to use a space in my file or folder names at all, even though the guide has instructions on how to do exactly that? Why is it so hard to find out why the escaped name is wrong?

I'm a Windows refugee who's been with Microsoft all my life. I remember using Windows 98 in elementary school. It's all I've known.

Now I'm on CachyOS after a brief tryst with Bazzite Gnome, and I'm learning that I have a lot to learn. Case in point: Why am I mounting secondary storage drives as folders in the file system?

I'm used to extra storage showing up as another drive in the system. What benefit is there to having the drive appear as a normal folder, and what complications can I expect from this mounting layout?

Thanks for the help!

I placed my first order the other day and got a tracking number in my email today. I tried checking USPS, UPS, and FEDEX, only to find my tracking information is for a shipping service called UniUni.

I have never heard of this group.

Yeah, it's just a drink mix, and yeah I only bought a basic, boring, boobless cup, but that's still $40 out of my pocket and into the hands of a shipping service with no reputation. Edit: Wow, I was wrong. A few minutes online, and they have worse than no reputation: They have a reputation for not delivering at all, losing packages in the warehouse for months, and just straight up stealing the package.

If I'm already paying $11.26 for shipping, why can't that money go towards a reputable service? USPS charged roughly the same amount for a heavier package shipping the same distance. Can't we send my package through them? Who the hell is Uniuni?