Timeline for Can Linux OS's cause a 'neighbour' NTFS partition to stop working?
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| Jul 22, 2012 at 1:49 | comment | added | programstinator | Before I've abandoned Ubuntu to give Fedora a try, I used ntfsfix, and it fixed the problem (curiously, after two tries- after the first time, the console lines told me that ntfsfix had failed to fix the MFT and MFTmirr mismatch, and after the second try, it showed none of the previous messages, but somehow got my drive working). So far, no new problems. I just wanted to find out if the origin of this bug, and possibly if it would appear in other Linux distros. I still can't accept your answer, but I can upvote it now- it DID help ;) | |
| Jul 21, 2012 at 20:41 | comment | added | Hank Gettinger | Okay, I've done a little more research on ntfsfix. I'm guessing that while you were editing files on the NTFS partition, something happened, maybe a powercycle, that caused those changes to not be written to the journal. Hence, the inconsistencies. ntfsfix resets the journal. Could you back up your partition and see if you can reproduce the error? | |
| Jul 21, 2012 at 1:14 | comment | added | Hank Gettinger | No problem! I'll keep thinking, let me know if you come up with something else. | |
| Jul 19, 2012 at 22:48 | comment | added | programstinator | @Hank_Gettinger- I am sorry for my lack of StackExchange etiquette, but another user has convinced me that I should not accept answers unless they solve the problem to satisfactory degree, so I will unaccept. No hard feelings :( | |
| Jul 19, 2012 at 21:38 | vote | accept | programstinator | ||
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| Jul 19, 2012 at 21:38 | comment | added | programstinator | I guess I'll have to settle with this answer, even though it's not the one I was looking for. Thanks, though! | |
| Jul 18, 2012 at 19:04 | history | answered | Hank Gettinger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |