![]() ![]() But in LM can't handle it, then I want to stay with FAT32. If NTFS is the "better" file system, I want to use that. Should I be using FAT32 instead of NTFS? As I stated, I have no need for FAT32 just for compatibility with Windows. ![]() If I didn't need them, I would just delete them instead of trying to copy/move them to an external drive. ![]() Whenever I copy more than about 3 Gb of files, Mint either hangs, or poofs my files into oblivion like it was an episode of The Twilight Zone, never to be seen again. It seems to me that Linux Mint has issued moving and copying files. Why do I need to keep a windows machine "on hand" just to access my USB drive? Then I took the USB drivet out of the windows machine and plugged it back in to my linux machine, and the files were mysteriously there and visible again just like nothing ever happened. SO I removed the USB drive from the LM machine andtook the USB drive to a windows machine and plugged it in, and viola, there my files were. It and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. Important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a I also copied some files to a USB drive yesterday, and then when I re-inserted the drive last night, I got the following error, and the drive would not mount:Įrror mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/ibjones/PNY_RED: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdb1" "/media/ibjones/PNY_RED"' exited with non-zero exit status 13: $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0).įailed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error So basically all my crap is just vanished into thin air like a fart in a hurricane. After the process finished, I see the files were gone from the SD card as I expected (because I cut them), but when I opened the new folder on the USB drive that I supposedly copied them to, the folder was empty. For instance, a few hours ago I created a new folder on one of my USB drives, then I cut some files from one of my SD cards and pasted them to my USB drive in the new folder I created earlier. I understand that NTFS is the better file system fro what I've been reading, and I have no use for FAT32 just for Windows compatibility because I'm migrating away from Windows.īut the issues I have been having is lost and "missing" files. Do I want to format my SD cards and USB drives with FAT32 or NTFS?Īll my external drives I use for storage were FAT32 and I recently re-formatted them with NTFS. ![]()
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