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?

  • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    If you’re using gnome disks, it hides the more Linuxy file systems behind an ‘Other’ option.

    Personally, for removable drives I prefer to use

    • ext4 for HDDs
    • f2fs for SSDs
    • exfat for Windows compatibility

    If it’s grayed out or you’re getting errors try searching up ‘how to format as [file system] in [Pop OS/Ubuntu/Linux]’, you might need some extra packages.

    • becOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, most options were greyed out. I’ll have to visit the wiki of my distro haha thanks for the tips though

      edit: actually, just checked, EXT4 isn’t greyed out, but it says “internal disk for use with Linux only” and since it’s an external/portable HDD I didn’t pick that option

      • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’m pretty sure there’s no difference between internal and external ext4 (at least how gnome disks handles it), so I think it’s just trying to make sure users don’t freak out when they format it as ext4 and think their data is all gone on Windows.

        Also when it’s grayed out you usually just have to install the fuse driver and file system tools, IIRC for exfat you install exfat-fuse and exfatprogs.