Need help - USB SSD is mounted read only

Hi,

as I had to increase disk space, I removed the existing USB SSD (formatted as NTFS (speed doesn't matter much)) copied the files on a Windows machine to the new larger one (also NTFS). Of course I disconnected the drives correctly in Windows to avoid open files (I actually shut down the Win machine after copy).

When I connected the new SSD to the LE, I can see the drive and shares from the Win machine, but I am unable to write to it:

I can see the USB SSD is mounter RO:

~/.config/system.d # mount | grep /dev/sda

/dev/sda1 on /var/media/hdd type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)

All other access to the SD-card for example is rw, so all works, so I wouls assume samba works correct.

Guess Windows done something to the SSD. I read a post from Chewitt somewhere that it may be that linux consideres the drive as somehow corrupted and thus mounts/flasgs it ro.

Before I do it, I wanted to get you opinion or experience, if it would help to unmount the SSD and run a fsck. Would this work with a NTFS drive? Would fsck -A /dev/sda1 clear a possible bad flag?

Thanks in advance

Edit: Just tested, umounted and ran fsck. Unfortunately didn't help, seemed fsck isn't really running, since -V didn't output anything (only fsck from util-linux 2.33.2). Of course owner is root and 777. Not sure it helps, but I did a dmesg | paste -> http://ix.io/3CJr

Thanks Klojum, so I guess I really forgot some detail here.

The SSD is connected to raspberry pi 4 externally via USB.

Sure ext4 is better, but I am only hosting this box for someone and when I need to create a backup on a windows machine, it's easier to attach it using NTFS.

Thank you Chewitt, had the hope that this can somehow been done in LE directly, but I didn't find ntfsfix or similar.

Was desperately trying, since the little Raspi is roughly 50 km away from me

Fully understand, guess I didn't well consider that Ext4 is the best choice.

The devil is a bit in the details for me. My server is Windows based (TV Recordings/cards, downloads, video editing, and somehow same time for my job). Windows still has issues to write Ext4

Sure, I could have converted the disk to Ext4 remotely, but then would have to send send all of those multimedia content over the 50 kms over a 50 Mbit/s line (omg). That's why I desperately tried to correct it via SSH in first place.

But I guess I need to go there and either check the disk or indeed convert it and store the data then somehow locally.

Thanks for advice.

Indeed 50Mbit/s is the uplink and the roughly 250GByte would need about 12 hours to upload, which is somewhat ok, you're right. I would for simplicity use filezilla SFTP, put it into a queue and leave it running.

Tools for Ext4 do not really exist and WSL2 seems do cause trouble also somehow. I start liking your idea of Ext4, but there is one thing I am not sure yet, maybe you have some advice (as I never tested this before)or experience?

So far all is setup in LE. Meaning the folders for contents have been setup in LE, like the folder for movies, Music, grabbers, etc. Is it possible to format a flagged drive at all? If so, would LE still work then as before concerning the previous set-up of folders? Would you recommend mkfs.ext4 or parted? All assuming I use the same label which is "hdd".

Excellent, thank you so much. I guess then I'll give the remote attempt a try in first place and move to Ext4.

So, we'll see in about 12 hours from now

My 81 year old user will be happy (we should make a poll, who is the oldest of them all ).