I don’t fucking know why I can’t eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don’t know who’s lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.
There is a dirty bit indicating the disk was not ejected properly. It stays there until you use the “scan and fix” action. It doesn’t indicate corruption directly.
yeah many linux systems will run fsck on mount as well if that same thing is detected, it’s not a windows specific thing
Actually had this occur on a USB NTFS drive I haven’t migrated the data to another fs from yet. It mounts at boot so my whole system got hung up until I removed it from the fstab and installed the tools to scan and fix the ntfs filesystem from the aur.
Was like a 20 minute fix, including time to research the tools I needed to fix it.