usb harddisk not working

Sat Nov 21 20:42:21 UTC 2020

On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 20:44:25 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
>So when in doubt, manually run fsck on the device.

I "only" need to run fsck for an external drive's hfs+ partition used
to share data between an iPad and a Linux PC. Without running fsck I
get IO errors as if the drive is broken. I never made this experience
with other file systems or when using hfs+ with just one operating
system.