Update: I was wrong about a couple things:

  • I’m having issues with 2 different NTFS drives. The ext4 one is fine.
  • The issue appears to be driver related. If the drive auto-mounts by udisks2.service, it shows up as “type ntfs3” with the output of mount, but if I mount it manually it shows up as “type fuseblk”. It seems that the fuse-based driver works but the ntfs3 one is broken.

I’m at my wits end with this one.

SSDs on my computer:

  • a drive with a Windows 11 install
  • a drive with an Ubuntu 22.04 install (the OS I use the most)
  • a drive with an Ubuntu 20.04 install (for a piece of touchy software I needed that didn’t seem to like 22.04)
  • an NTFS drive to share files across OSes
  • an EXT4 drive to share files across OSes

These are all physically separate drives, not partitions of the same drive or something like that. They all SATA SSDs except the Windows one which is nvme.

Ubuntu 22.04 is acting up. It seems that it can write to the NTFS and EXT4 drives fine, but has difficulty reading from them. If I write a file e.g. echo “hello world” > test, the file appears but trying to read it, the file seems empty. I reboot and I can read the file.

When I first encountered this, I thought the NTFS drive was failing, so I did a large rsync (to back up the data) and got some read errors, and then ran a SMART test which came back clean.

Since then, with further testing, only 22.04 seems to have these issues. Both Windows and 20.04 can read and write fine. However, Windows caught some filesystem errors with the drive after the large rsync.

I’m about to reinstall Ubuntu but I’m worried about making things worse somehow. It would be nice to have an idea of what’s going on.

Any advice?

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
    214·
    7 months ago

    Stop using Ubuntu?

    E: not sure why I’m being downvoted for suggesting that OP use literally any other distro that’s not trying to be more like Windows.

    There are dozens of other distros that are Ubuntu-based but without the corporate shitfuckery.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      7 months ago

      use literally any other distro that’s not trying to be more like Windows.

      Surely being less like windows will resolve OPs problem with reading ntfs volumes

      • helenslunch@feddit.nl
        11·
        7 months ago

        Surely it might be related to Ubuntu and uninstalling seems like a reasonable first step.

        • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          7 months ago

          Do you understand the irony of saying that OP can’t read windows volumes because their distro is too much like windows?

          Also lol at suggesting they nuke the whole OS over a minor issue they already found a workaround for