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?
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.
On 2 September 2015 at 10:26, Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
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?
Which Windows version?
Newer versions of Windows (10 certainly, 8 also I think) do not "shut down" when you tell them to, but go into a form of suspend. This means that the filesystems aren't closed and won't work open correctly in Linux. If this is the issue then the way Windows shuts down can be configured (I forget how but can look it up if that's your problem).
As I understand it, this would only affect you on a shutdown, not a reboot from Windows. (Ie open Windows, then initiate a reboot from there and select Linux, it should be OK, but tell Windows to shut down then later restart and select Linux and you'll have this issue.)
Mark
On 2 September 2015 at 14:00, Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk wrote:
Which Windows version?
Looks like I was right but you'd already discovered the solution, for some reason your reply didn't appear in the same thread so I missed it.
Mark
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