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calemblake
Joined: 07 Feb 2013
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 Posted: Thu 07 Feb 2013, 06:51 Post subject:
 Unable to Mount NTFS GPT USB drive (Solved) |
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Any Advice would be most welcome,
I have an issue with precise puppy and FatSlacko being unable to mount my USB drive. The drive is an NTFS GPT partition, about 20% of the time It is able to mount sucessfully, the rest of the time I can see the drive listed under
/dev/disk/id/
When I attempt to manually mount the drive with this command
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc1
I get the message invalid NTFS partition. The partition works fine on windows and 20% of the time in puppy.
Can anyone suggest another tool to auto mount drives? Im going crazy looking for the solution[/img]
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Flash
Official Dog Handler
Joined: 04 May 2005
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Location: Arizona USA
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I believe Windows has a utility called chkdsk or something like that, which will look for and repair filesystem errors without messing with the data. Have you tried that?
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calemblake
Joined: 07 Feb 2013
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| Posted: Thu 07 Feb 2013, 17:15 Post subject:
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Thanks for the quick reply!
Yes i already ran checkdisk an didnt have any luck
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calemblake
Joined: 07 Feb 2013
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| Posted: Sat 09 Feb 2013, 02:52 Post subject:
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bump
This bug is causing me alot of pain, please someone rescue me.
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amigo
Joined: 02 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Sat 09 Feb 2013, 03:18 Post subject:
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I'm not sure puppy has support for GPT partition tables.
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calemblake
Joined: 07 Feb 2013
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| Posted: Sat 09 Feb 2013, 03:34 Post subject:
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Yes it does, here is a screenshot of the GPT NTFS partition table working.
It took 3 disconnect/reconnects to get this working.
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bigpup
Joined: 11 Oct 2009
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Location: Charleston S.C. USA
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| Posted: Sat 09 Feb 2013, 13:25 Post subject:
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Just to eliminate a possible cause.
Have you tried connecting using a different USB port?
Different USB cable?
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npierce
Joined: 28 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sat 09 Feb 2013, 14:55 Post subject:
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| calemblake wrote: | When I attempt to manually mount the drive with this command
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc1
I get the message invalid NTFS partition. |
What was the full error message?
If one attempts to mount an entire partitioned drive as an NTFS partition (as it appears you have done), the message will say,
| Quote: | | The device '/dev/sdc' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. |
The error message then goes on to give advice on what might have gone wrong.
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calemblake
Joined: 07 Feb 2013
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| Posted: Mon 11 Feb 2013, 07:04 Post subject:
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Hey guys,
Yes this USB port is definitely working, I connected another disk on the USB port and it works fine. I have already swapped out the USB cable
There is only 1 partition on the disk and it is NTFS GPT.
The exact error message I get is
"There is no NTFS file signature found on this disk" when I issue the mount command.
I am toying with the mtab and fstab files to try and get it work, If i had to guess id say it has something to do with the "fsck" which runs on an interval within linux.
I plan to download tune2fs and see if i can rectify this issue.
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Flash
Official Dog Handler
Joined: 04 May 2005
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Location: Arizona USA
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| Posted: Mon 11 Feb 2013, 09:28 Post subject:
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If there's nothing on it, perhaps reformatting it to NTFS with Gparted will fix the problem.
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calemblake
Joined: 07 Feb 2013
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| Posted: Sat 23 Mar 2013, 20:50 Post subject:
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Thought I would be diligent and reply back that I have found the answer.
The problem is the fschk that occurs once in every 30 connections.
You can disable the fschk with either these 2 commands.
tune2fs is installed by default already on fatslacko. This fixed the issue for me...
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tune2fs -c -1 `mount | awk '$3 == "/" {print $1}'`
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tune2fs -c -1 /dev/yourhdd |
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Karl Godt
Joined: 20 Jun 2010
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Location: Kiel,Germany
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| Posted: Tue 26 Mar 2013, 00:49 Post subject:
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is it really sometimes working 20% of tries ?
| Code: | | mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc1 |
shouldn't be the right syntax.
npierce said
| Code: | | mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1 |
beware of the two sdc1 , not sdc and sdc1
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Another thing to consider: Puppy's /bin/mount and /bin/umount are wrapper scripts to mange the drive icons on the desktop and run /bin/ntfs-3g binary if -t ntfs given.
You might try to bypass the wrapper by
| Code: | | mount-FULL /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1 |
or
| Code: | | ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1 |
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tune2fs is made to work on ext[2-4] formatted partitions, not on ntfs.
But since you are a real awk freak, I must believe, that you know what you are doing.
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