Hello I’ve recently made a transition from another linux distro to open suse and I made a backup of all my user data on a f2fs usb drive just to discover that open suse doesn’t support it. Is there a way to recover my data without having to install another os?
You may need to explain a bit more on this. You found yourself that “it” isn’t supported in openSUSE, thus people here may never have seen such a thing.
@Efeme Hi and welcome to the Forum 
Have a read here as to why and how to re-enable https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:FilesystemBlacklisting
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Are you sure it does not support it? I’m pretty sure it does: my system has f2fs-tools installed by default. If yours is missing them, just run sudo zypper in f2fs-tools
The arch wiki about f2fs mentions issues if the kernel of the system you are using is notably newer than the system you created the partition on - maybe you created the drive on a OS running kernel 6.13 or newer and now are running leap or something that still not on 6.13 (6.13 introduced “Device alias”). Such is the life with unstable filesystems.
If you can’t mount the drive in dolphin for some reason, try doing it directly with the mount command: mount /dev/sdxY /media/foo replacing /dev/sdxY with the correct device, and foo with whatever you want.
Thanks, this is what I needed
I have f2fs tools installed too so it’s technically supported, but dolphin kept telling me it wasn’t. Now I realize that what I needed was to enable as @malcolmlewis pointed out
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