Iomega Prestige hard drive

[figi22]

I'm having trouble mounting a brand new Iomega Prestige hard drive. The message that I get is as follows:

$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0,1) Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action: Choice 1 If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by clicking on the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows taskbar then shut down Windows cleanly. Choice 2: If you don't have Windows then you can use the 'force' option for your own responsibility. For example type on the command line : mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/Iomega HDD -o force
Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file: /dev/sdb1 /media/Iomega HDD ntfs-3g force 0 0

First of all then I tried the command line option, but that didn't work. Then I went in and edited the fstab file to add the new line, but then I just got a message:

line 12 in /etc/fstab is bad
mount: can't find /media/Iomega in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Any ideas?

[taurus]

1. Connect the drive to a windows machine and use the safely remove hardware (icon in the lower right corner) option to unmount it first before you remove it.

2. Install ntfsprogs and use ntfsfix to fix it.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1
sudo mkdir /media/Iomega
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/Iomega
df -h

3. Or force mount it with

sudo mkdir /media/Iomega
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/Iomega -o force
df -h

[figi22]

Thanks - I'm ashamed to say that I took the easy option of no. 1 while waiting for a reply. I wish I'd tried one of the other methods to see how I got on.

Anway all OK - thanks.

[giosue_c]

The real problem here is that your drive is formatted with NTFS. Why not switch to a natively supported filesystem like ext3? gparted will take care of that for you...