external ntfs volume fails to mount...

[solex222]

Hi there! i have external HDD, NTFS-formatted which i cannot mount

solex@solex-desk:~$ blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="E29C74B59C7485B7" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="200b40ff-ed7e-4a8a-b603-5f5436e2dd94" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb5: TYPE="swap" UUID="2a67855f-93ea-45d5-a0ec-96786eb4855c"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="96C83342C8331FC3" LABEL="FreeAgent XTreme" TYPE="ntfs"
solex@solex-desk:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=200b40ff-ed7e-4a8a-b603-5f5436e2dd94 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sdb5 :
UUID=2a67855f-93ea-45d5-a0ec-96786eb4855c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/WinXP ntfs-3g defaults,locale=ru_RU.UTF-8 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=96C83342C8331FC3 /media/FreeAgent ntfs-3g defaults,locale=ru_RU.UTF-8 0 2
solex@solex-desk:~$ sudo mount -a
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/disk/by-uuid/96C83342C8331FC3': No such file or directory
Please type '/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g --help' for more information.

What i have to do to correct this? Thx!

[meindian523]

cd /dev/disk/by-uuid
sudo ln --symbolic -T ../../sdc1 96C83342C8331FC3The above creates a symlink to your external HDD(which I presume is the FreeAgent...) but this is but a temporary solution,since as soon as you remove the HDD,your symlink becomes useless.And I'm not sure that your disk will get the same UUID every time you plug it in.

[solex222]

solex@solex-desk:~$ sudo cd /dev/disk/by-uuid
sudo: cd: command not found

[meindian523]

Oops,sorry.I have modified the command.Please check.

[solex222]

Really sorry my stupidity - long life with Win has averted me from command line/terminal wizardry, it's all working now, thank you so much, but if theres a way to make it automatic ? Presuming that UUID is not changing...

[newbee70]

Hi there! i have external HDD, NTFS-formatted which i cannot mount

solex@solex-desk:~$ blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="E29C74B59C7485B7" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="200b40ff-ed7e-4a8a-b603-5f5436e2dd94" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb5: TYPE="swap" UUID="2a67855f-93ea-45d5-a0ec-96786eb4855c"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="96C83342C8331FC3" LABEL="FreeAgent XTreme" TYPE="ntfs"
solex@solex-desk:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=200b40ff-ed7e-4a8a-b603-5f5436e2dd94 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sdb5 :
UUID=2a67855f-93ea-45d5-a0ec-96786eb4855c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/WinXP ntfs-3g defaults,locale=ru_RU.UTF-8 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=96C83342C8331FC3 /media/FreeAgent ntfs-3g defaults,locale=ru_RU.UTF-8 0 2
solex@solex-desk:~$ sudo mount -a
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/disk/by-uuid/96C83342C8331FC3': No such file or directory
Please type '/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g --help' for more information.

What i have to do to correct this? Thx!

Can you cd into /media/FreeAgent?

or sudo cd /media/FreeAgent?

and please make sure your case is correct.

[solex222]

this external drive (Free Agent) has two link interfaces -

USB - which works perfectly - when plugged in it responds to mount/umount /media/FreeAgent - and drive is availabe in File mnager and working ok

and 2nd one - eSATA when plugged into respond with this


ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/disk/by-uuid/96C83342C8331FC3': No such file or directory

drive is pretty big and i'd prefer to use eSATA instead of USB, just can't understand what is the cause of trouble there i'm upgraded ntfs-3g to the latest available version but nothing is changed

[meindian523]

Really sorry my stupidity - long life with Win has averted me from command line/terminal wizardry, it's all working now, thank you so much, but if theres a way to make it automatic ? Presuming that UUID is not changing...
I wouldn't know of how to make it automatic,because what I told you was just some reading of the man pages and a comparison with a ls -alF of my /dev/disk/by-uuid.And no,I don't know why the USB works while eSATA doesn't.

[solex222]

Now i'm pretty sure that root of the problem is Marvell 88SE6111 PATA and SATA controller on my motherboard ASUS P5K SE that do not properly recognised by UBUNTU during the boot process, i've got Linux driver for it from ASUS web site but i'm definitely lacking the skills needed to implement it into the kernel at the time....
and driver said to be for Red Hat - does it make any difference?