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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]

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?

Thanks for the quick reply!

Yes i already ran checkdisk an didnt have any luck

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This bug is causing me alot of pain, please someone rescue me.

I'm not sure puppy has support for GPT partition tables.

Yes it does, here is a screenshot of the GPT NTFS partition table working.
It took 3 disconnect/reconnects to get this working.

Just to eliminate a possible cause.
Have you tried connecting using a different USB port?
Different USB cable?

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,

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.

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.

If there's nothing on it, perhaps reformatting it to NTFS with Gparted will fix the problem.

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...

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.