I installed the ntfs-3g package and can mount drives, but no files are showing up, only folders

I ran tree on a folder with my minecraft saves

As seen in the image above, no files are found, only folders. Any clue as to why?

I've been futzing around with Arch for the past six months, and finally have it where I want it: a slim, minimal rig running IceWM on Arch that idles at 600MB. I use it for word processing, browsing and Shortwave. I could use it the rest of my life, this thing. But now I'm hearing tell that in a few years time, Arch is gonna turn its back on Xorg, or GTK will, or some combination of things are going to happen such that I'll be forced to surrender my nice trim setup to some bloated compositor. What if I don't, though? What if I evade the hangman, block every wayland in pacman, recur endlessly to backups, illusions, become a trickster god, and carry on in my retrorealm smiling and singing? How long until my system crumbles and my GTK apps all leave me for dead?

Hi, I’m reinstalling arch with systemd boot and secure boot. The root is lvm encrypted. I want to install windows 11 on a separate drive. After using sbctl to create the keys, do I need to setup ukify? There’s a lot of ways of setting up UKI. Any recommendations?

me marca que no puede encontrar el archivo a la hora de buscarlo (aclaro que no se nada de programación y me instale el arch Linux con hyprland por qué me gusta como se ve el escritorio XD) me andaba guiando con un vídeo de YouTube y ya busque en distintos vídeos y no le sale el mismo error que a mi

So, trying to install Arch on an NVME drive and why grub-probe is looking for /dev/sda... I have no idea... I never used /dev/sda at all in this entire install process. Can I even use grub or should I be using something else instead?

Hi.

I'm new in EOS and, being a Arch distro, I need to config many tools to have a complete distro like Fedora I suppose. I have seeing that I need a tool for privacy/security like SELinux and I don't know if AppArmor is enough.

Which tools would recommended me in this aspect? Sorry for my bad English.

Greetings.

Hi, I would like to install arch manually without having a bootloader, only from uefi. I have seen the wiki, followed the steps but it is all very confusing and when I finish installing everything in vm, the system does not boot.

Is there any third party guide to install arch without bootloader??? with or without uki, it does not matter, thank you very much

The repo is: https://www.github.com/tilas01/arch-guides-all

Here you can find guides to fully setup arch with luks, luks and lvm all of that and dual boot windows and have secure boot so you can use bit locker and have your arch disk encrypted also using shim in other guides etc it’s all very thoroughly tested and written and all sourced from the official arch wiki I hope it helps you and some enjoy!

i have a hard-disk of around 1tb. It had three partitions, each of approx 300G. Recently, the drive's partitions were not detected on windows, however it showed itself in the create and format disks program.

NOTE: The hard-disk worked perfectly fine under Linux, no issues in mounting the drive or reading the contents.

However, in windows it shows the entire disk as "Unallocated" in create and format disk program and I was asked to reinitialize the disk before I use it. I did so(shouldn't have done), and it made no difference.

I then booted back into Linux and now i see only one 16M partition with the partition name microsoft reserved. I am suspecting during re-initialization of the disk windows did something strange to my disk and now I am unable to access any partition or files.

The rest of the space apart from that 16M partition is shown as free space under Linux. However I am confident that the partitions and files still exist(hopefully), but is just not accessible, THANKS TO WINDOWS.

Any leads on what to do now?

Hello, Im trying to install arch on an old mac using the archinstall script. I get this error when i start the script, any idea what can be the issue ? (Sorry for my english)

So I have a pretty bad school laptop and windows being a bit of a hog when it comes to reasources, I know switching to Linux in general means no adobe but at my school we dont use it nor do we use any other window specific programs.

My computer just froze and now it won't boot past this stage

I've tried restarting it

Any help?

This is a strange ask so let me give some explanation, a while ago i broke my windows laptop, so it wouldn't boot. Recently i got into arch and made a bootable arch USB and got it to boot on the broken laptop, and now i want to format the HDD so i can copy all the files from the bootable USB to the internal HDD and just use the laptop without the flash drive sticking out of it.

TL;DR: Can i format the internal HDD from a laptop with a Arch bootable USB to lator use as a Arch laptop.

EDIT: After messing with GParted I got the HDD formatted, but I'm still working on putting my previous arch data on the HDD

EDIT, SOLVED: Balena Etcher has an option to clone a drive to another drive.

arch doesn't keep it simple, it makes thing harder. linux mint is more KISS than arch.

how to disable encryption in hamachi on archlinux

Hello Today, a little while ago I found that the mouse and keyboard do not work correctly and slip on arch Linux Kde. It is very difficult and unpleasant, you always think that someone else is moving them,write... Thank you very much for your help.

My laptop keeps on freezing and when I checked the btop it shows its consuming all of my swap memory. I wanted to increase it a bit more as it's already very little, but I feel like that's not possible now it's something to do when installing right ? I watched a few youtube videos and tried some stuff out didn't worked for me. I really don't want to reinstall arch I'll have to download everything again. Is there a way to increase swap space ?

I've put together an arch linux installation guide for my university and I would appreciate it if you could help verify whether it's complete or if its missing something. Feedback would be great!

github repo

howdy people. this has really, really been killing me the last few days.

not exactly sure what went wrong, but trying to boot through grub takes me into a useless emergency boot, trying to boot through grub with systemd.unit=rescue.target is no more helpful.

booting live iso, mounting the system, and changing roots gets me a little further. however trying to update my linux-headers runs into some problems when addressing my wifi driver. it's a lot to type out manually so i'm just gonna post the script i attempted to remedy it with, and the errors it returns that are consistent with essentially all the errors ive been getting since this began:

remedy script (failed)

#!/bin/bash

set -e

dkms remove v4l2loopback/0.13.2 --all || true
dkms remove rtl88xxau/r1298.b44d288 --all || true

pacman -Syu --noconfirm linux-headers

dkms add -m v4l2loopback -v 0.13.2
dkms install --force v4l2loopback/0.13.2

rm -rf /var/lib/dkms/rtl88xxau
yay -S --noconfirm rtl88xxau-aircrack-dkms-git

dkms autoinstall

output logged

Module v4l2loopback/0.13.2 is not installed for kernel 6.13.0-arch1-1 (x86_64). Skipping...

Deleting module v4l2loopback/0.13.2 completely from the DKMS tree.

Deleting module rtl88xxau/r1298.b44d288 completely from the DKMS tree.
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core-testing downloading...
 core downloading...
 extra-testing downloading...
 extra downloading...
 chaotic-aur downloading...
 multilib-testing downloading...
 multilib downloading...
 blackarch downloading...
 proaudio downloading...
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) linux-headers-6.13.arch1-1

Total Installed Size:  138.59 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:        0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
checking keyring...
checking package integrity...
loading package files...
checking for file conflicts...
checking available disk space...
:: Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Remove upgraded DKMS modules
:: Processing package changes...
reinstalling linux-headers...
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/3) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/3) Updating module dependencies...
(3/3) Install DKMS modules
==> dkms install --no-depmod v4l2loopback/0.13.2 -k 6.13.0-arch1-1
Module /usr/lib/modules/6.13.0-arch1-1/updates/dkms/v4l2loopback.ko.zst already installed at version 0.13.2, override by specifying --force

Error! Installation aborted.
==> WARNING: `dkms install --no-depmod v4l2loopback/0.13.2 -k 6.13.0-arch1-1' exited 6
==> dkms install --no-depmod rtl88xxau/r1298.b44d288 -k 6.13.0-arch1-1

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.13.0-arch1-1 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/rtl88xxau/r1298.b44d288/build/make.log for more information.
==> WARNING: `dkms install --no-depmod rtl88xxau/r1298.b44d288 -k 6.13.0-arch1-1' exited 10

can anyone help me out with this because chatgpt aint doin its magic here and i need my computer to work, badly

...Sorry, the title should have said,

Re-build of Arch Linux kernel after update but without any Linux kernel updates

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Something I've noticed a lot but never really questioned until recently...

Whenever I see this happening...

==> depmod 6.12.10-arch1-1
( 9/11) Updating linux initcpios...
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
==> Using default configuration file: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: '6.12.10-arch1-1'
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [microcode]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [kms]
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [consolefont]
==> WARNING: consolefont: no font found in configuration
  -> Running build hook: [block]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: '/boot/initramfs-linux.img'
  -> Early uncompressed CPIO image generation successful
==> Initcpio image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
==> Using default configuration file: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: '6.12.10-arch1-1'
...

... and there wasn't a new Linux kernel update (just some software and lib file updates).

Usually I reboot after any major updates (especially kernel updates). But with lib file updates, is that updating/changing the kernel at all? I didn't think it did but it looked at the kernel for something. I see this /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback' and wonder if it had to change something in that file. Looking at the file info, it was last accessed yesterday afternoon and I rebooted the computer last night before going to bed. So, I've only done 1 update since the last reboot.

Do I need to reboot after this update? Only 6 packages (chatterino2-git-2.5.2.r38.g93344c9-1 fluidsynth-2.4.3-1 libetonyek-0.1.12-2 libwps-0.4.14-3 virtualbox-7.1.6-2 virtualbox-host-dkms-7.1.6-2) actually received updates. I'm wondering if those lib file updates requires me to reboot.