Problem with mounting.

[bodhi.zazen]

I did what you suggested bodhi.zazen, but it still won't mount the second drive. I get this error now.

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

And this error when trying to mount it from gksudo nautilus (the drive is currently fat32 but was previously ntfs)

NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdc1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

Is there no way that I could just start all the mounts over? There seems to be a lot of compatibility issues going on, and it probably has something to do with me reformatting one of the drives to several different formats (ntfs, ext4, fat32) trying to get it recognized.

Well, if you reformatted your partition from ntfs to fat, you have to update fstab

/dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 ntfs-3g auto,users,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

See:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Au...ountPartitions

[bodhi.zazen]

Hi ,
you probably have right. Multiple reformats created the problem . Fat32 ? hmmm... ancient filesytem especially for a HDD. Think about to reformat the drive to NTFS , is little better.

Try to add below command to rc.local and see how it will be going.

gksudo gedit /etc/rc.local

before exit 0 add this line

mount -a

save the document and reboot your system.
If something goes wrong , you can boot from recovery mode and click root and the give below commands to change the file

mount -o rw,remount /
nano /etc/rc.local

and delete the line mount -a
Thanks

That is not necessary if you use a proper entry in fstab and will fail with the same error unless you fix fstab.

[NikTh]

That is not necessary if you use a proper entry in fstab and will fail with the same error unless you fix fstab.

Hi ,
thanks for the info.
I thought this command (in rc.local) would mount all the devices automatically in boot, cuz rc.local executed as root.

[bodhi.zazen]

Hi ,
thanks for the info.
I thought this command (in rc.local) would mount all the devices automatically in boot, cuz rc.local executed as root.

It would do that, but they are mounted automatically already.

The problem is, fstab is saying "ntfs-3g" when it should say "auto" or "vfat".

fix fstab, fix the problem (although your solution shows you are thinking, and that is a good thing).

[NikTh]

Hi , bodhi.zazen

It would do that, but they are mounted automatically already.

The problem is, fstab is saying "ntfs-3g" when it should say "auto" or "vfat".

I used this message

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: only root can mount /dev/sdc1 on /media/sdc1

but it seems I missed this

NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdc1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

(although your solution shows you are thinking, and that is a good thing).

Thanks Guru !

[potatoos]

I changed "ntfs-3g" to "auto" and then to "vfat" and I still can't mount the drive.

I get this error:

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

[bodhi.zazen]

I changed "ntfs-3g" to "auto" and then to "vfat" and I still can't mount the drive.

I get this error:

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

Is there something wrong with the hard drive ? It sounds as if you have formatted the partition a few times.

If the hard drive is "OK", format it again and use the auto option

/dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 auto defaults 0 0

You can add options as needed, depending on the file system, from the links I gave you on fstab.

[potatoos]

Thanks, everyone!
I changed the line in fstab like you suggested, bodhi.zazen, then reformatted the drive, and it mounted properly.