Dolphin can't mount a NTFS drive but the mount command can

[Daisetzu]

I have a 400 gigabyte NTFS drive and i noticed that Dolphin can’t mount it, i can mount it with

sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

this is the output of the lsblk command

[keescase]

Do you get some kind of error message when trying to open the drive in Dolphin ?
That seems to be happening sometimes , checking the drive in windows with chkdsk is the best way to go. See also this topic.

Crash (not the issue), on reboot none of my other drives that were connected at the time will mount

This would be in the Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware category, but I’m only 75% sure the problem is of that nature, and I’m not exactly confident in my tech skills, so Newbie category it is. From what I remember of this particular forum software it shouldn’t be too hard to move me if that’s needed…? Right so uh, a crash of unknown cause happened (but as the thread title says that isn’t what I’m seeking help with) and when I booted I couldn’t mount any of my other at the time connected drives …

[Daisetzu]

An error occurred while accessing ‘New Volume’, the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /run/media/hristianm/New Volume: fsconfig() failed: /dev/sda2: Can’t open blockdev is the error i get i found an arch wiki article for dirty bit drives but i don’t know how to run the ntfsfix command

[keescase]

Like I said the better way to go is to check the drive in windows first , but if you want to go the ntfsfix route, do that at your own risk. Even better not to use NTFS in linux at all.

sudo ntfsfix --clear-dirty /dev/sda2

Assuming that /dev/sda2 would be the right partition

[Daisetzu]

chkdsk fixed the issue but right now i have another issue but i will make a different topic about it