external hdd disapeared
I have a hdd attached to my server. It’s sda
but has 2 partitions so sda1
@16M and sda2
@3.6T It defaulted to being in the location /media/devmon
so I kept that and it worked for ages. Suddenly the data is gone. I had files located here: /media/devmon/4tb_drive/kiwix/zim
and that directory is now empty. But I put the drive into a Windows box, and everything was there.
When I run mount /dev/sda2 /media/devmon/
it says:
<span style="color:#323232;">The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Falling back to read-only mount because the NTFS partition is in an
</span><span style="color:#323232;">unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation
</span><span style="color:#323232;">or fast restarting.)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Could not mount read-write, trying read-only
</span>
I originally formatted this drive in Windows, is that the issue? Ideally I’d use btrfs or zfs not ntfs, but here we are.
How do I get access again?