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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] horse_battery_staple 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    External over USB or network?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] horse_battery_staple 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] horse_battery_staple 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] horse_battery_staple 2 points 2 months ago

    Happy it helped. This to me is the beauty of open source.