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    [–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Correct, horse battery staple! (Puns) I have had issues with it occasionally when I tried but it is a start.

    [–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I usually suggest linux mint with cinnamon desktop for casual users or Fedora with KDE Plasma for power users .

    [–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I still use Mint. Even though I'm having problems lately with mounting external drives. I mained Elementary OS for a while but something about it seemed....shallow.

    [–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    External over USB or network?

    [–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    External SSD in an enclosure. So, it says it has a bad sector or bad generic error. I'll put it on my wife's windows laptop and do a chkdmsk /f/v/r and it cleans nothing up. And then it'll work one time in my Linux mint. When I use it on my windows 10 living room machine then back to the mint computer - same error.

    As long as I don't put it into a windows computer Linux mint is happy

    [–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    Sounds like NTFS journaling errors.

    Assuming the external disk is /dev/sdb

    sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1

    It also offers a specific option to clear the "dirty" flag on the partition:

    sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/sdb1

    [–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    Oooo I'll try that when I get out of this parking lot. And yea /dev/sda1. Also yes NTFS, 2tb with too much shit to swap around to use a different format.