Once again Ext hard Drives not mounted V11.0.1

Reddirt · May 22, 2023 at 12:59 AM

All has been working flawless since last update then yesterday both my ext drives didn't mount when powered on. I did a quick scan in Win and both drives reported errors and advised to used chkdsk to repair. I saved the report file and will upload the file tomorrow. Meantime here is the log. Nothing out of the ordinary at the time the errors occurred. Got me stumped.

http://ix.io/4wjh

sacha · May 22, 2023 at 1:43 PM

usb hd not visible in libreelec 11.0.1

OK with libreelec 9.2.8 and 10.0.4

The 2 Disk are NTFS. I use one disk a time

With V 10.0.4 and 9.2.8 , libreelec see both disk connected on the same time

The libreelc 11.0.1 installed after diskpart erase all partition on the Sandisk is 64GB

Raspberry is 8GB Pi4

Reddirt · May 22, 2023 at 5:45 PM

That would certainly explain some of the issues I've encountered. USB 3 and dual drives in my setup and the "collision error" windows once reported. Not sure this scan report is of any value but I'm providing it on the off chance it might shed some light on the ongoing issues.

scan report.txt

**heitbaum** · May 23, 2023 at 11:23 AM

LibreELEC 11 uses the ntfs3 kernel driver that was mainlined in kernel 5.15 (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whF…mail.gmail.com/) Whereas LibreELEC 10 and before use NTFS-3G (Fuse) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G

So the results will vary.

I see the error in your dmesg - it refuses to mount the disk because of “May 20 21:33:05.643108 LibreELEC kernel: ntfs3: sda2: volume is dirty and "force" flag is not set!”

The kernel ntfs3 driver if probably being more pedantic. There are no ntfs3 chkdsk tools released - thus the reason for “needing to Chkdsk /f on the windows machine.”

Note: I have test exfat and ntfs3 disk always connected to a test libreelec (and see some issues - joys of running prerelease kernels and software) but not the dirty issues being reported. Very rarely will I force shutdown my LE operating system. Plenty of reboots.