Running disk utilities - USB backup drive

  • This is driving me nuts. I have used my laptop win 11 to chkdsk my USB backup drive and things are fine. But i want to run the more intensive utilities provided by linux.
    The problem is i cannot mount the drive when the USB backup plugin is enabled, because it unmounts the drive. When disabling the USB bakup plugin, i can see the drive under disks, but unmounted.

    Looking through wetty, it shows unmounted...

    How do i mount the drive without the plugin, run the utilities, unmount and return to normal operations.

    When checking this issue using copilot, they suggest finding the uuid, creating a generic mountpoint, mount the drive, run the checks on the drive, then unmounting...
    Is this the best way? By using wetty as root user, creating a new mountpoint...etc... am i mixing up things for OMV?

    Will OMV operate normally with the USB plugin, assuming i have not touched the config in the USB Bkup plugin?

    • Official Post

    If you just mount the drive using the mount command, do whatever you want to do and then unmount the drive using the umount command, OMV will not be aware of anything.


    You could also boot into a Linux live distro and do things from there.

  • macom

    Added the Label resolved

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