I've had this problem using various Linux distros, currently running Manjaro KDE 15.12 on an ASUS G75VW laptop.

https://www.asus.com/us/ROG-Republic...pecifications/

When I transfer files to either an external hard drive or USB drive, some (one in five??) of my media files cannot be read by another device. (DLNA/SMB or directly plugging the drive into a television.) The files still read just fine when opened up on my laptop, but nothing else will read them. (Maybe Windows, haven't tried.) Is there some kind of corruption/reorganization that Linux can ignore/read that other devices wig out on? Right now it's files I transferred via the USB3 port, but I'm pretty sure it's happened on the USB2 ports as well.

I guess I need to know what's going on, how to stop it, and how to fix the transferred files if possible. We're talking 2.5TB of data that I really don't want to go through and repair by hand.

JSG

Are you booting the system from BIOS? If so try to use GPT if you find improvement. If your machine is capable of 64bit install the system as such.

Negative. There is nothing "of like problem" that GNU/Linux cannot handle. The suspect problem in the case you presented is either the system reached the limit, as there are chances that tools hard-wired for a sector size of 512 bytes or are limited to 32-bit calculations, exceeding the 2 TB limit would cause serious compatibility problems, or at least, maybe there is intrinsic problem owing to the hardware. Manjaro is a good distro, if installed without issues it doesn't raise any problem of such kind you currently have.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

m.m.

Thanks for the response. Thankfully, this is only a problem I've had in the past (Kubuntu 15.04), though I thought it was recurring. It seems that one of my devices was having issues playing certain files. Others played them just fine, and once I realized that ... not a problem.