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Can only mount external drive with sudo
I asked this question in another forum (in a different language) and over there they put me in the right path. I'm going to describe the path in question so that other people facing something similar ...
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Is there a zero trust way of burning a Windows ISO to flash drive?
If what you want is to make a bootable Windows USB (for installation purposes) from the Windows OS ISO file, then that could be easier than you think.
You will need first to prepare the USB disk by ...
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23.10 Cannot mount USB key
I have same problem after upgrading to 23.10 (just finished today actually).
I fixed it by using "Repair Filesystem..." option in Disks apps.
However there are warning regarding data loss so ...
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Is NTFS drive causing Ubuntu 24.04 to hang sometimes?
I'm thinking that the cause here could be glib via tracker-miner-fs-3. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/localsearch/-/issues/315. Ubuntu 24.04 is shipping with 2.80.0-1build1 but there is an ...
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Strange "mount" parameters with ntfs3
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And what does the iocharset do here for me?
Quoting from the kernel documents for NTFS3:
This option informs the driver how to interpret path strings and
translate them to Unicode and back.
Re:...
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23.10 Cannot mount USB key
I had the same problem, after upgrading ubuntu to 23.10 all of usb disks stop working. I confirm that repairing filesystem in Disk app solve the problem.
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Which is more likely recoverable NTFS or Ext4
While I do have some Windows systems, these external drives are used exclusively on Ubuntu systems.
In this case the answer is pretty given: a Linux native filesystem with robust support. XFS, EXT4, ...
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How to make my default home directories (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures and Videos) the existent ones on my NTFS partition, on Ubuntu 24.04?
There are multiple possibilities. Your NTFS partition obviously should be automatically mounted during startup through /etc/fstab for this to work.
By far the easiest way to connect these folders to ...
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NTFS not accessible on Ubuntu Budgie 24.04
Could be due to a bug in Ubuntu 24.04 with NTFS, without a fix yet. See:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntfs-3g/+bug/2062972
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/2063985
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Changing Linux file names to NTFS-compatible file names
With Perl's rename:
rename -n 'y/\\: /__\-/ if -f' *
... where -n is for a dry-run (to actually rename files, remove it or change it to -v for verbosity), y will translate each character in the ...
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Losing files on external BitLocker encrypted drive
I've studied your process flow and if what you posted is the exact commands you issued, you should have been successful in accomplishing what you set out to do.
Not to sound disrespectful, but doing a ...
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Mounting NTFS partition: old fstab cached?
Well, after some more digging and a stroke of luck, I think I figured it out!
The thing is (and I had omitted this information from the original post because I had completely forgotten about it), ...
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USB pendrive : the copy takes about 3 minutes but the unmount takes a very long time : 10 to 12 minutes
As a side note, if you want to copy something to USB drive and then check sync'ing, you could use my small tool, usbcp:
https://github.com/satk0/usbdrivetools
Example:
usbcp file mounted/pendrive
Yea,...
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