I don't fucking know why I can't eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don't know who's lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.

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[–] ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is a dirty bit indicating the disk was not ejected properly. It stays there until you use the "scan and fix" action. It doesn't indicate corruption directly.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yeah many linux systems will run fsck on mount as well if that same thing is detected, it's not a windows specific thing

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Actually had this occur on a USB NTFS drive I haven't migrated the data to another fs from yet. It mounts at boot so my whole system got hung up until I removed it from the fstab and installed the tools to scan and fix the ntfs filesystem from the aur.

Was like a 20 minute fix, including time to research the tools I needed to fix it.