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Solved: USB drive mount with root as owner, cannot be used
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(09-24-2023, 09:08 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: @Girafenaine 

Sounds like you have some corrupt files, or worse, corrupt sectors or master file table, in the NTFS partition. Have you access to a Windows host on which you could run chkdsk on your USB disk? It should take care of basic disk issues leaving corrupt music files to take care of. (Linux has fsck and ntfsfix but most folks find them much less useful that chkdsk.)

There's no a priori reason that an NTFS file system won't work with moOde/MPD but it's not a very good choice. The fact that the partition is mounted as root:root is a red herring. As it happens, I have an NTFS-formatted USB drive I used just the other day in an attempt to repro a problem reported by another user. I'm listening to an MP3 file from that drive via moOde right now. No problem with the drive, also mounted root:root (and not able to repro the other user's problem).

Regards,
Kent

Thanks @TheOldPresbyope for you post, that makes sense !

OK for the "red herring" about root:root mount.

I have only linux systems at home. I just run fsck and ntfsfix from moode on the usb drive, with no success. No errors were seen, and no change after reboot.

I would probably get rid of ntfs and use another file system. I wanted to have windows compatibility just in case I want to share easily. Fat32 or exfat should be more robust on linux…
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RE: USB drive mount with root as owner, cannot be used - by Girafenaine - 09-24-2023, 09:29 PM

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