I still use Mint. Even though I’m having problems lately with mounting external drives. I mained Elementary OS for a while but something about it seemed…shallow.
External SSD in an enclosure.
So, it says it has a bad sector or bad generic error. I’ll put it on my wife’s windows laptop and do a chkdmsk /f/v/r and it cleans nothing up. And then it’ll work one time in my Linux mint. When I use it on my windows 10 living room machine then back to the mint computer - same error.
As long as I don’t put it into a windows computer Linux mint is happy
Oooo I’ll try that when I get out of this parking lot. And yea /dev/sda1. Also yes NTFS, 2tb with too much shit to swap around to use a different format.
I could kiss you. I won’t. But I could.
I might have to make a auto script to run this every time like I do with my wifi on suspend. But that did fix it. Thank you for taking the time to help me.
I usually suggest linux mint with cinnamon desktop for casual users or Fedora with KDE Plasma for power users .
I still use Mint. Even though I’m having problems lately with mounting external drives. I mained Elementary OS for a while but something about it seemed…shallow.
External over USB or network?
External SSD in an enclosure. So, it says it has a bad sector or bad generic error. I’ll put it on my wife’s windows laptop and do a chkdmsk /f/v/r and it cleans nothing up. And then it’ll work one time in my Linux mint. When I use it on my windows 10 living room machine then back to the mint computer - same error.
As long as I don’t put it into a windows computer Linux mint is happy
Sounds like NTFS journaling errors.
Assuming the external disk is /dev/sdb
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1
It also offers a specific option to clear the “dirty” flag on the partition:
sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/sdb1
Oooo I’ll try that when I get out of this parking lot. And yea /dev/sda1. Also yes NTFS, 2tb with too much shit to swap around to use a different format.
Good luck!
I could kiss you. I won’t. But I could. I might have to make a auto script to run this every time like I do with my wifi on suspend. But that did fix it. Thank you for taking the time to help me.
The -d got me where I needed.
I’ll pass along your kindness when my time comes.
Happy it helped. This to me is the beauty of open source.