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I'm not in reach of a pc to test, but I think the problem is that the partition is mounted temporary. Try making a new mountpoint and adding it to fstab (with noauto iirc, so that your system does not hang when you start with the drive unplugged).
Where can I find the steps for doing this?
Create a dir in a place you like
mkdir(If it is in a dir where you have no write access, you need tosudoordoas)Unmount the automounted
/dev/sda1umount /dev/sda1Then mount sda1 to the newly created dir
mount /dev/sda1Then you can use genfstab to create a fstab entry. (You maybe need to
sudo pacman -S arch-install-scripts)genfstab /This will write a fstab file to stdout (the terminal). Look for the line with , copy it and sudo open the /etc/fstab file with your prefered editor. Add the line at tge bottom and add the flags
rw,user,noautoto the entry.This way you have to manually mount sda1 every time you boot with
mount /dev/sda1You can add that to your
.bashrcor equivalent. (If you don't plan to remove the disk, you can skip the noauto and the drive will be loaded automatically, but if it is unplugged your system won't boot normally). Maybe there is a better way, but this way works for me good enough.