Ubuntu 20.04 fails in using external 5GB Seagate USB drive

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The disk is formated in ntfs format. Very often the system do not mount (recognizes) the drive. The problem temporaly desapears after a mounting the drive in a Windows system. Even somtimes “gpart” determines that not any filesysmtem is in the drive. There is a particular driver that has to be used with this Seagate disk?

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Isn’t 5GB a bit too small?

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exactly… penny pinching “architects” dictating 4 GB “/” and 4 GB “/var” are the bane of my life - “Oi you - ‘architect’, yeah you, the 1990’s called, they want their capacity plan back!” :

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