It’s been months since I permanently switched from Windows to Linux. Fedora 44 with KDE Plasma FTW!!! Switching was pretty simple as my storage setup was a SATA HDD as the boot drive containing Windows and two NVMe M2 drives containing my work, Games and the rest. I just replaced the SATA HDD with a SATA SSD and installed Linux on it. I hadn’t bothered to reformat the M2 drives with ext4 file system as Linux doesn’t play well with NTFS - the file system Windows uses. It’s proprietary, AFAIK. Little did I know this will come back to bite me later.

Since all my work and games are on the M2 drives, my IDEs, game launchers - all mount those drives. I even have MCP servers running from those drives. I had left it running one night - there was a power cut and when I booted back in, the M2 drives just refused to mount. A bit of research brought me to the conclusion - power cut, crash, or unsafe disconnect can leave an NTFS drive marked as dirty or with unfinished filesystem changes. Linux may then refuse to mount it. And I didn’t wanna connect and boot up Windows just to repair them. Linux has the ntfsfix utility that can help fix some classes of errors and I looked into that.

The outcome is a small utility app that monitors any NTFS drive you connect and, when it’s reported corrupt, allows you to diagnose and fix it, as long as the fix falls within ntfsfix’s realm.

You can find it here - https://github.com/aakashh242/mount-medic

To install, just run the below commands:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aakashH242/mount-medic/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --download