Cannot mount external hdd, no privileges
Hello all.
After spending all afternoon reading threads about this and not finding a solution that worked for me, I decided to post a threat on this again:
I have an external hdd formatted as NTFS that I want to mount at a fixed mount point named "A-Data" in /media.
So I created a mount point for it and added an entry in fstab as follows:
Code:
UUID=3C607E73607E342C /media/A-Data ntfs defaults,noauto,nls=utf8,umask=0222,user,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177,windows_names,hide_hid_files 0 0
However, I cannot mount it.
I get this error message:
Code:
An error occurred while accessing 'Yoram-A-Data', the system responded: A operação pedida foi mal-sucedida.: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE
library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated
FUSE support and make it setuid root. Please see more information at
http://tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#unprivileged
Any help would be appreciated.
The whole fstab looks like this:
Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdb5 :
UUID=f5c2fda7-0eeb-4890-bd17-e8f59cc7602b / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
#Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=71135240-e9ac-4277-bccc-da52109b9943 /boot ext4 defaults 0 2
#Entry for /dev/sdb6 :
UUID=22d2b552-cfc9-4e41-b6de-172b694ace2c /home ext4 defaults 0 2
#Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=79728FFDFDD66EC6 /media/ARQUIVOS ntfs defaults,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177,windows_names,hide_hid_files 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdd5 :
UUID=11FC2C34D54F2529 /media/JOGOS ntfs defaults,noauto,nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=61A60666D74790D6 /media/MULTIMEDIA ntfs defaults,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177,windows_names,hide_hid_files 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdd1 :
UUID=120B4E126D0CC231 /media/PROGRAMAS ntfs defaults,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177,windows_names,hide_hid_files 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdb7 :
UUID=CA1480BC1480AD4F /media/TRABALHANDO ntfs defaults,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177,windows_names,hide_hid_files 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdb2 :
UUID=D208D12E08D11279 /media/WINDOWS_XP ntfs defaults,noauto,nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdd1:
UUID=3C607E73607E342C /media/A-Data ntfs defaults,noauto,nls=utf8,umask=0222,user,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177,windows_names,hide_hid_files 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdd6 :
UUID=f06adac3-0f96-4d5f-b58b-ad74625d29f9 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
The other partitions are mounted just fine.
Thank you
Re: Cannot mount external hdd, no privileges
I do not think you can have both umask and fmask & dmask as the umask will conflict with the other two.
fmask and dmask Like umask but defining file and directory respectively individually.
From user Morbuis1
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12181259
Re: Cannot mount external hdd, no privileges
Quote:
Originally Posted by
oldfred
I do not think you can have both umask and fmask & dmask as the umask will conflict with the other two.
fmask and dmask Like umask but defining file and directory respectively individually.
From user Morbuis1
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12181259
Thanks oldfred,
I have removed the umask option, but nothing has changed.
Re: Cannot mount external hdd, no privileges
I do not know details of mount commands well enough, but do not see anything else.
Does that NTFS partition need chkdsk?
Re: Cannot mount external hdd, no privileges
Quote:
Originally Posted by
oldfred
I do not know details of mount commands well enough, but do not see anything else.
Does that NTFS partition need chkdsk?
Not sure what you mean with that, but I know the disk is fine as if I comment the line concerning that hdd, it mounts fine.
But I want it to have a fixed mount point.
Re: Cannot mount external hdd, no privileges
Better info here on settings:
From user Morbuis1
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12181259
Re: Cannot mount external hdd, no privileges
Quote:
Originally Posted by
oldfred
I changed the dmask and fmask to those values (dmask=775,fmask=664 and dmask=002,fmask=113) as I was confused about which I was supposed to enter, no luck.
I have that problem only with drives I do not automount at startup.
All other mount fine.
I now get this error:
Code:
An error occurred while accessing 'Pasta Pessoal', the system responded: A operação pedida foi mal-sucedida.: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: only root can mount /dev/sdh1 on /media/A-Data
The line looks like this:
Code:
UUID=3C607E73607E342C /media/A-Data ntfs noauto,defaults,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177,windows_names,hide_hid_files 0 0
Re: Cannot mount external hdd, no privileges
I do not know options well. But does not noauto mean you have to manually mount it as root?
Would be easier than just to have a script with the mount and run the script if you do not want it mounted when booting, but then do want it later.
Re: Cannot mount external hdd, no privileges
Quote:
Originally Posted by
oldfred
I do not know options well. But does not noauto mean you have to manually mount it as root?
Would be easier than just to have a script with the mount and run the script if you do not want it mounted when booting, but then do want it later.
I do not much about it either. I know noauto does not mount it automatically. The drive is external and not plugged all the time, the other drives I do not want them to be mounted unless I really need them.
There must be a way to do this, to give the user permission to mount it.
I have read on other threads, that if you add the "user" or "users" option, it gives permission to the current user or all users respectively, but it does not work.
Thanks for your help.
Re: Cannot mount external hdd, no privileges
I configured the NTFS utility and checked the boxes for internal hdd support as well as external hdd support, rebooted and there were errors mounting the internal hdd set to automount, during the boot time. I had to press S to skip mounting.
I disabled the support and had to change the fstab to its original values or nothing would mount.
So, my problem persists. I have read many threats on this on the net, so this seems to be a common problem. I have a few several "solutions" but none worked for me.
I followed this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1661757, nothing.
Any help would be appreciated.