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Hi. My /etc/fstab file includes /dev/hda7 (my largest partition) at /home, but when I run df -h, this partition is not listed as an active partition? So is this partition actually mounted?
root@bluegospel:~# mount -a
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/hda7': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/hda7' 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?
mount: devpts already mounted or /dev/pts busy
root@bluegospel:~# mount /dev/hda7
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/hda7': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/hda7' 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?
root@bluegospel:~#
Have you done an fsck in windows on that partition lately or did Windows not shutdown cleanly last time? If it's not either of those I would make sure windows can read it before continuing to troubleshoot on the Linux side.
root@bluegospel:~# dmesg|grep mount
EXT3-fs: hda5: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240).
EXT2-fs: hda5: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240).
EXT4-fs: mounted filesystem hda5 with ordered data mode
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
root@bluegospel:~# dmesg|grep ntfs
root@bluegospel:~#
You were right Alunduil. I went into Windows and found that this drive had not yet been formatted. I've formatted it in Windows and now I can view it in Linux. Thanks!
Okay, now I've mounted that drive to my home directory, but now I cannot run startx as barth because /home/barth is obscured by the partition. chown -R barth /home/barth fails.
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