On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 10:41 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:11 AM Lily White > <lilywhite2...@outlook.com> > wrote: > > > I got a spare drive and it does work (at least for now, this drive > > worked for a while before everything broke). So I sent my old drive > > back > > to Sandisk and I'll see if it was with that specific model. > > > > I'll also wait for some time and see if wear and tear may cause > > problems. > > > > What's interesting is that the broken drive works on both Fedora > > and > > macOS, but not Windows. That's why I didn't speculate the drive > > itself > > was broken before. > > > > > I am going to bet that the NTFS code is very similar on Fedora and > MacOS. > So likely it is a code bug or a usage bug (see comments below). > > you did make sure to umount it on Linux/BSD before removing it right? > > And if you hibernate the machine(any os) and remove the usb device > while > hibernated the filesystem may not be consistent, it has to be > explicitly > unmounted on both windows and fedora before removal so that all data > is > fully written. > > In the past it was suggested to not use NTFS as a transfer drive and > to use > something simpler like FAT32 as that fs's format is better documented > and > simpler than NTFS. That may or may not still be the case.
Most NTFS installation on Linux use a user-space implementation via Fuse, which is known to have some limitations (IIRC it's fine for reading but might be problematic when writing). A new kernel-based implementation is apparently on the way and is said to have a higher degree of compatibility. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
