All the previous entries for this that I can find are all at least 10 years old. I am working in Linux Mint 17 Qiana KDE ver 4.13.1. I am trying to mount several hard drives that are not recognized by Dolphin. I have tried to make a directory in the mnt directory in order to have a place for the drive once it is mounted. I consistently get a message "Permission denied". When I use the mount command I get a message that "mount: can't find /dev/sdd in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab". Doesn't matter if I am in the root or mnt or dev directories. I am a linux newby and maybe I should be over there. Eventually I want to place my Home directory on one of these newly mounted drives. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

have you tried runing and than changing permissions..?

what filesystem use the disks?

you need to create mount points (folders) for them in the /media directory (eg: /media/{whatever}), than chmod those folders as 777 (chmod 777 /media/{whatever}) as root
then
ad an entry for them in /etc/fstab
e.g.
this will mount them automatically on the next reboot and you should then have permission to read/write them

there are other options which you can use in place of defaults to make the folder user mountable/unmountable, though i can't think of them off hand, try running 'man fstab' in a terminal window, this should help.

I really did try, but they would not mount on reboot. I created mount points, but I am not sure whether I did the chmod 777 correctly. I then modified the fstab file. However on bootup the process hung with a choice to skip or modify the mount process. I had to skip as I could not understand what I had to do. I am probably close but no cigar. It is very frustrating for me as I have used an afternoon and not been successful. I am getting on in years and I will rather die before going back to Windows. I think I know how out of tune windows is and I am not really very fluent in Linux. I like that analogy because my wife plays cello in several orchestras.

Hi,

can you post the exact line that you put in your /etc/fstab? I guess a modification is needed.

Evo2.

/dev/sda2 /media/sda2 ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdd /media/sdd ntsf defaults 0 0
/dev/sde1 /media/sdd ntsf defaults 0 0

I have three drives that I am trying to mount. Here is the whole file

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=ee5d12b0-38c5-4e79-af71-eb932f5c0d6e / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=89666810-cc11-4fc4-a5ac-641fac045883 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/sda2 ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdd /media/sdd ntsf defaults 0 0
/dev/sde1 /media/sdd ntsf defaults 0 0

I am not 100% sure of the file system on all the drives, but I usually format them ntsf.

looks like you made a typo, you put ntsf when you probably meant ntfs

Hi,

also you seem to be trying to mount two devices at the same mount point. Perhaps you should have:
Then
After doing that please run the following
and post any error messages.

Evo2.

I changed the typo and on bootup still get:

"Press S to skip mounting or M for mount recovery".

When I press M I get a root prompt. So I pressed S to boot.

Standby

Hi,

there is no need to reboot. Running "mount -a" will test it in the same way.

Evo2.

When I ran mount -a this is what I got:

sudo mount -a
[mntent]: line 1 in /etc/fstab is bad
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdd': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdd' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sde1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sde1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?



Unfortunately I have to leave and won't be able to be back till tomorrow. I wish to thank all of you who have taken the time to help me.

Hi,

you are making progress. I guess there is some sort of typo in the first line of your /etc/fstab and that you have not provided the correct device names or filesystem types.

So, please post your /etc/fstab again so that we can look for the typo, and please post the output of the following command so that we can identify what paritions you really have.
Evo2.

i can see line 2, /dev/sdd is a device node, not a partition
maybe /dev/sdd1?