/etc/fstab Errors when doing sudo mount -a

[coffeecat]

Hm.. explain further?

Ah, forget it. I've always used 'defaults' for the option in ntfs fstab lines and I thought that 'default' wouldn't work, but I've just tried it and it does.

Saves a keypress, I suppose.

[Joshwaa]

Ah, forget it. I've always used 'defaults' for the option in ntfs fstab lines and I thought that 'default' wouldn't work, but I've just tried it and it does.

Saves a keypress, I suppose.

I've tried what you've said, and it still doesn't work.. im confused as to why this isn't working..

[Ant59]

Does it give any details on the error?

Out of curiosity, what does "sudo fdisk -l" output?

[Verbeck]

could you try mounting it to a directory without a space?

sudo mkdir /media/windows-7

then in fstab - line 12

/dev/sda3 /media/Windows-7 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

EDIT:
also post the output of

sudo blkid -c /dev/null

[Joshwaa]

Does it give any details on the error?

Out of curiosity, what does "sudo fdisk -l" output?

It just says that line 12 is bad..
hm..

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdc82dc82

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1530    12288000   27  Unknown
/dev/sda2   *        1530        1543      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            1543       35089   269457752    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4           35089       38914    30718977    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           35089       38914    30718976   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 3965 MB, 3965190144 bytes
49 heads, 48 sectors/track, 3292 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2352 * 512 = 1204224 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           4        3293     3868160    b  W95 FAT32

[Ant59]

What details does it give if you try it manually?

sudo mount /dev/sda3 "/media/Windows 7"

[Joshwaa]

What details does it give if you try it manually?

sudo mount /dev/sda3 "/media/Windows 7"

Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.

[Ant59]

I think I've got it! Did you correctly shut down Windows before booting Ubuntu? If you hibernated or didn't shut down, you won't be able to mount the Windows partition.

[Joshwaa]

I think I've got it! Did you correctly shut down Windows before booting Ubuntu? If you hibernated or didn't shut down, you won't be able to mount the Windows partition.

It was shut down properly.. haha.
The thing is, it shows up in my the sidebar of Nautilus and I click it and it mounts.. it's weird because my music on Rhythmbox is being pulled from my Win7 partition and I have to open the partition for the music to load, I'm trying to make the partition automatically load.

[Verbeck]

also. before you try sudo mount -a, unmount the device first if its already mounted

sudo umount /dev/sda3