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mikebomb
Oct 23, 2023Aspirant
ReadyNas 312 - External storage device is connected but the file system is not recognized
RN312, 6.10.9. I recently got a new 18 TB external USB drive, formatted NTFS. When I first connected it, it was recognized without issue. I started copying data from the existing USB drive to the...
Sandshark
Oct 23, 2023Sensei - Experienced User
I'm wondering if that failure during a copy caused you to be writing to the OS partition instead of the USB drive (which has it's mount point in the OS partition) and has filled or almost filled your OS partition or at least put something in it such that it can no longer serve as a mount point.
Some users who have come here with OS partition full issues seem to have that as the cause, and the OS partition filling can have a lot of different effects.
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