OpenSUSE 12.1 fdisk doesn't identify USB NTFS Drive

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The old small IDE disk is probably not worth the effort of re-installing Ubuntu and then openSUSE again.
While the disk still works under Windows 7, I’ll buy a new SATA disk to replace the IDE disk.

Carlos and Henk, You helped me figuring out what the problem is.
Again thank you, dank u wel, ¡muchasgracias!

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Graag gedaan.

But it is a bit frustrating not to know what is wrong.

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Henk, I’ve re-installed Ubuntu 11.10, and after updating the system and re-booting, my external IDE USB Windows-NTFS disk was automatically recognized, and I’m using it right now.
Copying data works fine between the external disk and the Ubuntu PC.

Re-installing openSUSE became necessary anyway because yesterday BTRFS on the system disk got corrupted (however, the second internal BTRFS disk still works fine under Ubuntu).
So I thought re-installing Ubuntu and testing the NTFS disk was only an incremental additional effort.

Excerpt from error messages on the screen of the corrupted system (I shot a photograph):


btrfs: corrupt leaf, slot offest bad: block=4480483328,root=1,s....
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000....
...
could not mount root filesystem -- exiting to /bin/sh
...
sh: no job control in this shell

Wonder why BTRFS on openSUSE’s system disk got corrupted.
Will later re-install openSUSE and see how things work then.

Peter

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Better use ext4, except when you want to test btrfs (and thus also file bug reporrts about it when something goes wrong).

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On 2012-01-20 14:56, petgo wrote:
> Wonder why BTRFS on openSUSE’s system disk got corrupted.

Because it was not umounted, I think.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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I’ve re-installed openSUSE 12.1, and the external USB NTFS disk automatically showed up in Dolphin.
All directories and files on the disk were accessible.
A nice surprise.

Today I’ve run in YaST an online update of the system successfully (which was not possible over the last few days because the system always complained about a wrong checksum for dolphin-4.7.2-4.4.1.x86_64.rpm).

Now the negative surprise: While the system update worked, the USB disk doesn’t show up anymore.
Very strange.
Will report a bug on bugzilla.

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The Kernel update to 3.1.9 resolved the issue.