On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 10:26:04 +0100 Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
Hello,
I have 3 SATA discs on my machine. One has Windows on it, another has Mageia 5 and the third is designated as Disc_Swap_Space to allow me to swap files between Windows and Mageia. It's formatted to NTFS. I prefer that to allowing Windows to write to any linux drives.
But even though the swap drive functions perfectly under Windows, Mageia won't mount it. It complains 'non-zero exit status 14' and say that the file system is unclean. But I've run all the checks under Windows and that thinks it is clean. So how can I persuade Mageia to use it again?
If any of you have customers that dual-boot Windows and linux, this may help you if they too complain about such problems.
I went from Windows 7 straight to Windows 10 as part of the Microsoft free upgrade. If I had Windows 8, I think I would have encountered this problem earlier. It seems that Windows caches information in a file called hiberfil.sys and it's that which screws up linux. The remedy is to turn off the fast-start option in Windows. It does nothing of the sort for me but having unchecked the option, I have rebooted and Mageia can now see the Disc_Swap_Space drive again. Hopefully it will keep working, unless Windows re-enables it in some upgrade or other.