I was playing a game, alt-tabbing froze my system so I waited a bit and then rebooted by using the button on the case, since I couldn't do differently.
It now throws an error when mounting a drive: error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/user/local disk 1: unknown error when mounting (udisks-error-quark, 0)
This drive doesn't have anything I was using on it, since it's a media storage drive. I booted up Windows on my second drive and it can see and access this one without problems. How to fix?
I've always just dropped down into a different virtual terminal with CTRL+ALT+F#, killed the bad process and/or just rebooted from there. Is that not a thing anymore? I haven't had to do it in so long because of improved stability and not using the DE on my server much, so maybe I'm out of the loop.
Sometimes it's not possible if everything crashed.