Problems Mounting USB External Drive NTFS!!!

dec009 · 08-04-2007, 06:26 PM

hey i have been having a lot of troulble mounting my external drive NTFS. Once i have connected it and it appears in Computer i click on it and it says it can not mount the drive. it in pop up it says i need to enter

Code:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/Trinny -o force

it also says that i need to put this in the /etc/fstab file -

Code:

/dev/sdb1 /media/Trinny ntfs-3g defaults, force 0 0

i tried the first command which it told me to do in the terminal and it did mount but once i turned my computer off or dissconnected the drive the error just keeps coming back

i then tried to put the second command it told me in the /etc/fstab file but once i did and saved it everyone time i clicked on the drive in Computer it would just say that i am not privleged to open the drive????

Here is a copy of my fstab file.. i Dont know if i did it right??

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#  -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config -- 
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=033045fd-65bd-4ef2-bb36-859308fd2fe4 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=daa5c1b4-dc37-492a-9e40-cfd9d1861939 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

Thanks

Simon Bridge · 08-04-2007, 06:35 PM

Good to see that you have ntfs-3g installed... you need to add "user" to the options line. Some people get better results with "umask=0222" so it should be:

/dev/sdb1 /media/Trinny ntfs-3g defaults, force,user,umask=0222 0 0

... which should be added after the floppy line in that fstab file.

dec009 · 08-04-2007, 07:02 PM

hey thanks for your help .. i entered what you said but when i cliked on my drive it still said i cannot mount the external drive.. it said

Code:

[mntent]:line 15 in /etc/fstab is bad
mount: can't find /media/Trinny in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

dec009 · 08-04-2007, 07:06 PM

its working now i had wrote it in wrong

Thanks so much for your help

dec009 · 08-07-2007, 06:56 AM

hey the problem has come back, my ntfs external wont mount i entered

Code:

/dev/sdb1 /media/Trinny ntfs-3g defaults, force,user,umask=0222 0 0

in /etc/fstab but it still wont let my mount it??

Simon Bridge · 08-07-2007, 08:00 PM

manually mount in terminal and report the errors.

dec009 · 08-08-2007, 01:17 AM

well when i mount it in terminal by

Code:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/Trinny -o force

when i enter this it gets mounted and works but if i log off or shutdown or unplug it.. when i turn the computer back on or plug it back in it wont mount and i have to enter the code again