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What was your mount command? You might have to do something like mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sda1 /whereveryouwannamountthething or edit your fstab entry, something like /dev/sda1 /whereveryouwannamountthething ntfs3 defaults 0 0
Here's the Arch wiki page for NTFS, the Arch wiki is usually where I'd start for fixing stuff, their documentation is fantastic.
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You're good, glad we could help!
You are most likely only missing ntfs support, which seems to not be installed by default: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363583/cant-mount-ntfs-on-arch-linux
I'm not familiar with cachy-os but since its based on arch, the following should work:
pacman -Syu
pacman -S ntfs-3g
Not sure if cachy-os will auto mount. But after installing the ntfs-3g package, make sure you reboot.
If it still doesn't work you can try to manually mount it or edit you're fstab so it it auto-mounted and assigned to the same device label.
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NTFS doesn't like to not cleanly getting shit down. I remember I needed to boot windows again and then shutdown, in order to access my NTFS volume from Linux, because last time windows didnt shutdown cleanly. Glad you got it fixed
The linked post is 8 years old. AfaIk, by now ntfs is in the regular Linux kernel (ntfs3) and the ntfs-3g FUSE driver in principle isn't necessary anymore. Yet, one may give ntfs-3g a try if the ntfs3 kernel module doesn't work.
OP may also try running ntfsfix to repair the partition.
TBH I was only interested in the install instructions (program name) for arch/pacman. Havent used an ntfs fs in ages but there is still a package for ntfs-3g in debian. He obviously lacks ntfs support atm
No, ntfs-3g is not strictly necessary for NTFS support, (mount -t ntfs should already work). It just offers more options and features than the standard ntfs3 which is already built into the Linux kernel. Yet, ntfs-3g performs better under some circumstances (mount -t ntfs-3g). It also provides ntfsfix and other neat tools.
see if you can get it to manually mount with ntfs-3g. If you can, set an auto mount after.
Manually it should look something like
sudo mkdir /mnt/drivename
sudo mount ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/drivename
Thank you. I resolved the issue thanks to our brainstorming. Upd in OP.
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Please check the output of fdisk on whether the filesystem is recognised correctly.
Thank you. I resolved the issue thanks to our brainstorming. Upd in OP.
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Great 👍🏻