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Anonicus

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Registered: 2024-07-15

Posts: 2

Cannot access USB into my Arch Linux Machine

Hello everyone, Honestly quite nervous to type this in but I need your help.

So I'm coming from the Debian side of things and into Arch Linux, And this USB I have been using all this time was made within those systems.

The issue I'm having is that whenever I plug it in, I hear the "Da-Ding" of me Inserting something. However, I encounter this Issue:

An error occurred while accessing 'PrimaryUSB', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sdf1 at /run/media/anonicus/PrimaryUSB: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdf1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

Now, If I plug it into my Laptop that runs a Debian Distro, It works just fine with no issues being brought to me. So, How can I mount this USB drive?
For the record, This USB Drive contains precious data that I need to keep with me (We're talking YEARS of stuff + passwords) so any help is appreciated.

Anonicus

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Registered: 2024-07-15

Posts: 2

Re: Cannot access USB into my Arch Linux Machine

Wait Wait I figure it out and now I kinda feel bad making this thread.

Basically what I did was that I installed

sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g

Then I made a directory for my usb in my system

sudo mkdir /run/media/anonicus/PrimaryUSB

Then I did

sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sdf1 /run/media/anonicus/PrimaryUSB

And I made it work then, Sorry for wasting up a Thread here! Please close this thread.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Cannot access USB into my Arch Linux Machine

FWIW if it doesn't work with the kernel built-in ntfs3 driver that usually points to the drive being in an inconsistent state in some form. ntfs-3g has more leeway on what it allows, but you'd be advised to run a chkdsk from Windows to ensure filesystem consistency.

If you consider this [SOLVED] please mark it as such by editing the title in your first post.

cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

Posts: 2,184

Re: Cannot access USB into my Arch Linux Machine

For the record, This USB Drive contains precious data that I need to keep with me (We're talking YEARS of stuff + passwords) so any help is appreciated.

In that case you should not use NTFS as filesystem for a storage that's used with linux.
Rather backup the data cleanly and reformat the drive to some linux specific FS.
Ifxyou have the requirement to exchange data with windows use plain old fat - either fat32 or modern exfat.
Do NOT rely on ntfs in linux - you will lose data at some point!