I'm facing an issue with my current storage setup where I have both NTFS and EXT4 drives. My boot drive is a 1TB NTFS, and I also have a 250GB SSD with Kubuntu (EXT4), along with a 3TB NTFS drive and a 4TB NTFS drive. The problem arises when I try to access both NTFS drives concurrently. When I boot up, my 4TB drive mounts just fine, but the 3TB drive fails with a red error message in Dolphin, indicating issues with mounting. I managed to access the 3TB drive using a command to manually mount it, but when I do that, the 4TB drive disappears and gives an error that it doesn't exist. When I attempt to remount the 4TB drive, I get a message saying it's already exclusively opened, suggesting it can't be mounted while the other is in use. My goal is to have both drives accessible at the same time, ideally under /media/hoopty/3tb and /media/hoopty/4tb. Do I need to create those directories before mounting, or does the mount command take care of that? What do you recommend for fixing this issue?
3 Answers
Have you checked if the 3TB drive is secured with Bitlocker or anything similar? Sometimes, encryption can cause mounting issues. If they're both unencrypted, it sounds like a typical confusion between the mount points.
That sounds tricky! You might want to try using GParted to run a check on the partitions. Sometimes filesystem errors can cause drives to behave strangely and a quick check can clarify things.
I attempted to check them, but GParted requires them to be unmounted first. The issue is they get stuck in a weird state where they seem both mounted and unmounted.
Just to confirm, have you tried accessing the drives on a Windows machine? If they work fine there, it could point to an NTFS issue with the Linux setup.
Yes, they both work perfectly on Windows. It's just on Linux where the issues arise.
No, both drives are unencrypted. I can access them individually, but they're having issues when I try to use them together.