When first installing Manjaro, beginners will usually be confused because they will experience several problems. For example, appcenter which is not working.
If you are a beginner who is installing manjaro for the first time, you should know the following things to do after installing manjaro:
UPDATE
Open a terminal ( CTRL+ALT+T ) and type:
sudo pacman-mirrors -c Global
wait until finished
sudo pacman -Syyu
Wait and follow the steps to finish. This process usually takes a few minutes depending on the condition of your internet signal. and spend about 2Gb quota.
Then restart your computer
DATA FOLDER SETTINGS
This may be a bit tricky for beginners. Setting this data folder to set where you store your data (your work, project, photos, etc) permanently.
Create a new partition with Gparted in unnalocated space ( if there is free space ).
See the sdaX number for the partition you just created. Or, open a terminal and type :
lsblk
See the sdaX number for the partition you just created.
For example, the new partition is sda5.
Open terminal and type :
sudo chown yourusername /mnt
Go to /mnt and create new folder DATA
sudo umount /dev/sda5
sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/DATA
sudo blkid
Copy the UUID of sda5.
For example, the UUID is 9fa4713f-8f7f-4789-a807-7c8f39cfa58d
Open filemanager as root ( Open thunar filemanager, right click, select Thunar Root ).
Open the fstab file with text editor . This file location is in /etc/fstab.
Add a new line with this :
UUID=9fa4713f-8f7f-4789-a807-7c8f39cfa58d /mnt/DATA ext4 defaults 0 2
Save (overwrite) the fstab file.
Restart.

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