Problems Mounting NTFS

[DeltaFee]

Hi I am having a little bit of trouble with mounting my NTFS Partition: I am not sure what I am doing wrong

Here is my FSTAB -l



Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5140 41287018+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5141 9705 36668362+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 9706 9729 192780 82 Linux swap / Solaris


here is my FSTAB


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda2
UUID=0b224239-ac94-4721-99f8-46a7e4bb2fcc / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda3
UUID=a68e5912-e381-404b-8651-d8cf48ef762a none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
# Windows File System
/dev/sda1 /mnt/XP ntfs-3g auto,users,uid=1000,gid=100,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=1 37 0 0

[m_duck]

I would have thought the problem is on the last line:


/dev/sda1 /mnt/XP ntfs-3g auto,users,uid=1000,gid=100,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=1 37 0 0Though I don't know for sure, it looks like that is probably being read as the next field along. If removing the 37 doesn't do the trick, for the sake of simplicity, I tend to mount mine like:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/XP ntfs-3g defaults 0 0Then run in terminal
sudo mount -aThis will either give you an error or just return you to "user@host ~$" having mounted the partition.

[XanTrax]

I mount mine as such (from FSTAB)



UUID=10383C5E383C454E /media/WindowsXP ntfs-3g defaults 0 0


You can get the UUID by doing



ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid


Will output something like



drwxr-xr-x 2 root 100 2009-01-29 05:05 ./
drwxr-xr-x 6 root 120 2009-01-29 05:05 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 10 2009-01-29 05:05 10383C5E383C454E -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 10 2009-01-29 05:05 6c27bea9-f2c8-43e3-a9b4-f3a80956c1ea -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 10 2009-01-29 05:05 98b1c716-53a2-4296-a595-1ae31b0cb292 -> ../../sda2


That is UUID with a symlink to the device. As you can see, /dev/sda1 matches the UUID in how I mount it.

[DeltaFee]

When I do


ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid


I get:


drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2009-01-29 11:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 100 2009-01-29 11:30 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-01-29 11:30 0b224239-ac94-4721-99f8-46a7e4bb2fcc -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-01-29 11:30 a68e5912-e381-404b-8651-d8cf48ef762a -> ../../sda3


Can't find my /dev/sda1, any ideas?

[XanTrax]

When I do


I get:


Can't find my /dev/sda1, any ideas?


Thats weird that it wont show up like that but shows up in fdisk. Please type this


ls -al /dev | grep -i sda1

and post the output

[DeltaFee]

I get this, I am not sure why but I did make sure to keep my NTFS xp.



brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-01-29 12:10 sda1

[Giannis68]

reinstall ntfs-3g...
i had the same problem on my laptop dual boot vista and linux..
vista needs shutdown before i boot to linux!!!
with restart or sleep ntfs partition not mounted on linux...

[XanTrax]

I get this, I am not sure why but I did make sure to keep my NTFS xp.

Well, this is getting weird lol. What happens when you do



sudo mkdir /media/xp
sudo mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/xp


Please post the output

[DeltaFee]

tried that here is the output:


Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda1' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?

[DeltaFee]

Thxs. I got it working.

[XanTrax]

Thxs. I got it working.

How so?

[DeltaFee]

It turned out the NTFS partition was corrupted. Apparently I f***d it up somehow. Though I did use partition magic in xp, when I tried to boot it I got corrupted partition table. Had to reinstall both ubuntu and xp.

[XanTrax]

It turned out the NTFS partition was corrupted. Apparently I f***d it up somehow. Though I did use partition magic in xp, when I tried to boot it I got corrupted partition table. Had to reinstall both ubuntu and xp.

Nah, you didnt have to do that much. You can use ntfsfix. Comes included with ntfs-utils package (I believe) or by default. Either way, it works out. I had some crazy error on my jump drive that used to randomly unmount itself then become unmountable completely. Using NTFSFix though, seemed to fix the problem.