I stumbled upon a problem that happened to me in a span of a week when I did nothing but installing games via steam and updating stuff via default manager.

In short: system mounted 2 internal drives as usual, but 1 other internal drive and any usb stick I put into PC fails to do that, and can be mounted only via terminal that leaves you with read perms only as a root user for some reason, even if told otherwise. I took an unnaturally long three evenings dive into possible solutions trying to fix it and learning how mounting works (that’s a plus, I guess). But I was unable to find any working solution to that after all that time.

There comes the red UNFUCK button of my latest weekly backup in Timeshift. Itso happens one other working drive is the one where I put all my restore points. And after launching it and having a smoke break it all started to mount correctly like nothing ever happened.

I feel some, may I say, edging-without-resolution feeling from not getting what caused that problem to me, probably the mechanism of mounting drives got ecked up by something else, but I’m happy that sometimes I have a safety net to give up and just undo whatever happened.

And I take back all my bad words about Timeshift that itself caused my system to die by overfilling the sysdrive to the brim 'cause I stupidly let it use for restore points lmao. After getting some things correct from the second time, I stumbled upon a chance to really appreciate it working.

I feel like there’d be a lot of learning on the way and I would love for it to happen in less stressful situations and in a more systemic fashion. If you happened to have some sources on that, I’d like to read\watch them.