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?

  • Atemu
    25·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • becOPEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • Atemu
        9·
        1 year ago

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

        • becOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
            31·
            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

            • becOPEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Nah, all Linux is good. I don’t really need to use Win and since all my HDDs are for media storage I have no reason not to use them on Linux only. They’re only mine and don’t have to hop from PC to PC. Thanks for the input though

            • Atemu
              1·
              1 year ago

              From what I’ve seen, that’s a great way to corrupt your filesystem.

          • Atemu
            2·
            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?

      • db2@sopuli.xyz
        43·
        1 year ago

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