Can't mount external drives after updating kernel

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BUT as this ntifs - YOU MUST ensure the filesystems are shut down cleanly from Windows - otherwise ntfs3 driver will refuse to mount.

If you get write errors you must reboot into Windows and run chkdsk command for the file system

@soundofthunder created a very thorough topic on ntfs - worth a read.

If you have anything - scripts et.al. - that requires the device to have a fixed mountpoint my recommendation is to use a set of unit files.

This makes the device available when needed and unmount shortly after it is no longer needed.

As example we take your devices from fstab - comment the lines in fstab and save the file

#UUID=01D6D6DDA6146800 /mnt/Data ntfs3 defaults 0 0
#UUID=5E7E4E247E4DF575 /mnt/Fun ntfs3 defaults 0 0

Then reboot your system

When back up create 4 new files in /etc/systemd/system - file names reference the mount point

  1. /etc/systemd/system/mnt-Data.mount
    [Unit]
Description=Mount Data partition

[Mount]
What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/01D6D6DDA6146800
Where=/mnt/Data
Type=ntfs3
Options=rw,noatime

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
  2. /etc/systemd/system/mnt-Fun.mount
    [Unit]
Description=Mount Fun partition

[Mount]
What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/5E7E4E247E4DF575
Where=/mnt/Fun
Type=ntfs3
Options=rw,noatime

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
  3. /etc/systemd/system/mnt-Data.automount
    [Unit]
Description=Automount Data partition
ConditionPathExists=/mnt/Data

[Automount]
Where=/mnt/Data
TimeoutIdleSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
  4. /etc/systemd/system/mnt-Fun.automount
    [Unit]
Description=Automount Fun partition
ConditionPathExists=/mnt/Fun

[Automount]
Where=/mnt/Fun
TimeoutIdleSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable and start the .automount units

sudo systemctl enable --now mnt-Data.automount mnt-Fun.automount

Open your file manager an point to /mnt/Data - watch the magic…

What happens is - at the time of accessing the automount calls the mount thus making your data accessible.

The longer explanation

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