~~System is Arch Linux. NTFS-3G is installed. I have had this problem on Gnome (Nautilus) and KDE (Dolphin). I already tried fixing it with Testdisk. No success. Any help is appreciated.~~
UPDATE: I have re-formatted the disk and it is working now. Thank you for all your suggestions and tips.
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If you're using GNOME or a derivative, you should probably be using
gio mountto do the same mounting as the file manager would. Then again, you say that the file manager isn't working, sogio mountprobably won't work either.I admit I had no idea about the guts of this - and maybe still don't - but the user who suggested looking at udisks is probably right. It's always been there in the background as long as I remember (Mint/Cinnamon, many years), and has hooks into something I mounted with
gioafter the last reboot.Another search term that might help is "gvfs", or GNOME virtual file system, which I've definitely poked around with before.
Importantly, Nautilus and
giodon't need sudo because they call into what's already running. They (or the subsystem) automatically create the mount point directory (and remove it on unmount). If the directory already exists, they use the "append a 1" technique you experienced, presumably so they don't clobber or hide something that might be important.At this point I will probably just back up all the files and re-format the disk, as I can mount usb flash drives without any issue, so I am assuming there is something wrong with the external hard drive.