Unable to Mount NTFS GPT USB drive (Solved)
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Unable to Mount NTFS GPT USB drive (Solved)
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]
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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Just to eliminate a possible cause.
Have you tried connecting using a different USB port?
Different USB cable?
Have you tried connecting using a different USB port?
Different USB cable?
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
What was the full error message?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.
If one attempts to mount an entire partitioned drive as an NTFS partition (as it appears you have done), the message will say,
The error message then goes on to give advice on what might have gone wrong.The device '/dev/sdc' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
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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.
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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Answer
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...
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...
tune2fs -c -1 `mount | awk '$3 == "/" {print $1}'`
or
tune2fs -c -1 /dev/yourhdd
is it really sometimes working 20% of tries ?
shouldn't be the right syntax.
npierce said
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
or
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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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mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc1
npierce said
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mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc1 /mnt/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
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mount-FULL /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1
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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.