[SOLVED] unable to mount ntfs partitions

drkarthik · 05-27-2016, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hydrurga

It certainly looks unusual.

Can you paste the output of:

Code:

cat /proc/mounts

here,
linuxmint drkarthik # cat /proc/mounts
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=2978772k,nr_inodes=744693,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=598968k,mode=755 0 0
/dev/sda10 / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,relatime,size=4k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars efivarfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /run/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k 0 0
none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
none /run/user tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=102400k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot/efi vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
systemd /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,name=systemd 0 0
gvfsd-fuse /run/user/1000/gvfs fuse.gvfsd-fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000 0 0

thanks!

hydrurga · 05-27-2016, 08:38 AM

Ok, thanks. Sorry for all this. Now the output of

Code:

cat /etc/mtab

so that we can confirm that mtab is somehow awry.

drkarthik · 05-27-2016, 08:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hydrurga

Ok, thanks. Sorry for all this. Now the output of

Code:

cat /etc/mtab

so that we can confirm that mtab is somehow awry.

here,

linuxmint drkarthik # cat /etc/mtab
/dev/sda1 /boot/efi vfat rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
systemd /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd 0 0

thanks!

hydrurga · 05-27-2016, 09:00 AM

Now that is not what I expected (I hoped that mtab would show faulty mount info, including the NTFS filesystem in question). It doesn't even show your mounted Mint installation on /dev/sda10.

I think it probably needs a more experienced head than me. What I was going to suggest however is that you reset /etc/mtab through the following command:

Code:

sudo sh -c 'grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab'

drkarthik · 05-27-2016, 09:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hydrurga

Now that is not what I expected (I hoped that mtab would show faulty mount info, including the NTFS filesystem in question). It doesn't even show your mounted Mint installation on /dev/sda10.

I think it probably needs a more experienced head than me. What I was going to suggest however is that you reset /etc/mtab through the following command:

Code:

sudo sh -c 'grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab'

start

well this step also failed to address the problem.
i reset mtab with the above command and restarted the computer and the problem is there.
how can i make sure that an experienced head looks into the problem?
thanks!!

hydrurga · 05-28-2016, 01:04 AM

You could always try converting mtab into a symlink (make a copy of the file first as mtab-copy or similar so that you can revert to it if you encounter problems):

Code:

ln -sf /proc/mounts /etc/mtab

drkarthik · 05-28-2016, 01:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hydrurga

You could always try converting mtab into a symlink (make a copy of the file first as mtab-copy or similar so that you can revert to it if you encounter problems):

Code:

ln -sf /proc/mounts /etc/mtab

well hydrurga,
looks like you are the experienced head!!!!
converting mtab to symlink with the above code worked perfect!
all partitions are now mounted correctly and i am able to access them fine.
thanks a lot!!
you just saved lot of my time i would have wasted in reinstalling linux mint again!!!

hydrurga · 05-28-2016, 01:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drkarthik

well hydrurga,
looks like you are the experienced head!!!!
converting mtab to symlink with the above code worked perfect!
all partitions are now mounted correctly and i am able to access them fine.
thanks a lot!!
you just saved lot of my time i would have wasted in reinstalling linux mint again!!!

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