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bluegospel 05-30-2010 03:35 PM

trouble mounting main partition
 
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?

jamescondron 05-30-2010 03:40 PM

Doesn't look it. Could you give us the output of

Code:

cat /etc/fstab
cat /etc/mtab
df


bluegospel 05-30-2010 04:40 PM

fstab:
/dev/hda5 / ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda2 /windowspartition ntfs-3g umask=022 1 0
/dev/hda7 /home ntfs-3g umask=000 1 0
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

mtab:
/dev/root / ext4 rw,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda2 /windowspartition fuseblk rw,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0

alunduil 05-30-2010 04:43 PM

What happens if you run `mount -a`? Also, if that doesn't work `mount /dev/had7`?

Regards,

Alunduil

jamescondron 05-30-2010 04:44 PM

Code:

dmesg|grep mount
dmesg|grep ntfs


bluegospel 05-30-2010 04:47 PM

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:~#

alunduil 05-30-2010 05:00 PM

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.

Regards,

Alunduil

jamescondron 05-30-2010 05:00 PM

Has this ever been mounted? Does it mount anywhere else? What does
Code:

lsmod|grep ntfs
give?

bluegospel 05-30-2010 05:06 PM

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:~#

bluegospel 05-30-2010 05:11 PM

root@bluegospel:~# lsmod|grep ntfs
root@bluegospel:~#

jamescondron 05-30-2010 05:21 PM

RedHat?

bluegospel 05-30-2010 05:26 PM

Not RedHat, Slackware.

bluegospel 05-30-2010 05:30 PM

The other day it shutdown abruptly and I don't recall whether it was running Windows or Linux. I usually run Linux on that PC but I'm not sure.

bluegospel 05-30-2010 06:14 PM

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!

bluegospel 05-30-2010 06:22 PM

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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