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I was playing a game, alt-tabbing froze my system so I waited a bit and then rebooted by using the button on the case, since I couldn't do differently.

It now throws an error when mounting a drive: error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/user/local disk 1: unknown error when mounting (udisks-error-quark, 0)

This drive doesn't have anything I was using on it, since it's a media storage drive. I booted up Windows on my second drive and it can see and access this one without problems. How to fix?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is none. NTFS is a filesystem you should only use if you need Windows compatibility anyways. Eventhough Linux natively supports it these days, it's still primarily a windows filesystem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, I see. So you're saying that, when I have the chance, I should move to a different filesysten and that would avoid me issues as the one in the OP?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're only using this filesystem on Linux anyways, absolutely.

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

Yes, I've basically moved permanently over to Linux and do 99.9% of the things on it. Had to boot Windows for the first time in days only to check whether or not my HDD died after I couldn't mount it

I'm still in the process of optimizing stuff around Linux (e.g. media drive filesystem) but I'll get there haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m still in the process of optimizing stuff around Linux (e.g. media drive filesystem)

What do you mean by that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You could use btrfs on Linux and install the windows driver. The Windows driver isn't what I would call stable but it will work if your mostly using Windows.

Another option is a windows virtual machine instead of dual booting. With a VM you could simple transfer files with magic wormhole or something similar

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

FAT is older and has fewer features but it's better supported.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

exFAT, not old school regular FAT.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I tried formatting an external HDD and I picked FAT, I'll have to research whether or not that filesystem is good for my needs