I have a curious issue ( for me) with an external hdd, first I had lost the partitions (dont know why), I ran the testdisk on Manjaro and it recovered my partitions with the information, then I needed to copy some info from the hdd to a different machine running MX Linux but when I connected the disk its not recognized, I tried with a third machine running Kali Linux but nothing the same problem, I ran the partition program on MX but it says the disk has no partition but when connected back to the laptop running Manjaro it is recognized and its working fine. Im sharing an image where you can see a lock symbol on one of the partitions, thank you.
You can also see that it is mounted to /run/media/wherever
Perhaps you don’t have the NTFS driver installed on those other distros.
got you, thank you…mmm does the partition tool on MX need the drivers in order to recognize there is a NTFS part present?
Don’t know anything about MX; but look:
pacman -Si gparted
Repository : extra
Name : gparted
Version : 1.1.0-1
Description : A Partition Magic clone, frontend to GNU Parted
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://gparted.sourceforge.net
Licenses : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : parted gtkmm3
Optional Deps : dosfstools: for FAT16 and FAT32 partitions
jfsutils: for jfs partitions
f2fs-tools: for Flash-Friendly File System
btrfs-progs: for btrfs partitions
exfat-utils: for exFAT partitions
ntfs-3g: for ntfs partitions
reiserfsprogs: for reiser partitions
udftools: for UDF file system support
xfsprogs: for xfs partitions
nilfs-utils: for nilfs2 support
polkit: to run gparted from application menu
gpart: for recovering corrupt partition tables
mtools: utilities to access MS-DOS disks
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 1734.46 KiB
Installed Size : 7213.05 KiB
Packager : Christian Hesse <arch@eworm.de>
Build Date : Mon 20 Jan 2020 02:17:02 PM EST
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature
Optional deps need to be installed; under Arch, they are not automagically installed for you.
Ok, Understood, I’ll apply all the necessary updates, thank you.
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