Merak75AKA "Vukodlak75" MVM join:2001-10-27 Willoughby, OH 1 edit |
opensuse 11.1 mounting external ntfsI cannot get my external (WD 500 GB) ntfs USB drive to mount. Keep getting an error about "Cannot get volume.fstype.alternative". I did a research and found some bugs reported about ntfs-3g. But I don't have a clue on how to fix this. My internal ntfs drives get mounted and I have read/write privileges. |
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Can you post the last part of dmesg after you plug in the device? |
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Merak75AKA "Vukodlak75" MVM join:2001-10-27 Willoughby, OH |
The 2 attachments are the errors I get after plugging in the drive. |
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I don't know what that stuff is. Too GUI-fied.
dmesg, please.
What kernel, by the way? I fought with an external enclosure for hours and finally fixed it by moving to a newer kernel - 2.6.27.7 in my case. |
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Merak75AKA "Vukodlak75" MVM join:2001-10-27 Willoughby, OH |
Kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-pae OK, I just ran dmesg in terminal and saved it as a txt file. Hope that was what I was supposed to do. I had to google dmesg and get some info on it. |
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to Merak75
I'm thinking it's some sort of communication problem.
I have an external 160G drive that mounts just fine on my desktop (opensuse 11.0), and on my wife's desktop (with Vista). But it gives me problems on my laptop, whether using WinXP or opensuse 11.0). |
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From what I see in the dmesg output, the drive is being recognized and a device assigned. I believe the error is from a configuration or permissions problem. I manually mount via fstab. You're trying to do it with the HAL daemon, and I'm out of my element.
Hopefully, someone who knows more about using HAL can jump in. |
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to Merak75
said by Merak75:The 2 attachments are the errors I get after plugging in the drive. Cannot get volume.fstype.alternative
Have you tried to manually mount the USB drive? mount -t ntfs /dev/sdg /mnt/tmp
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Merak75AKA "Vukodlak75" MVM join:2001-10-27 Willoughby, OH |
I get the following when trying to manually mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdg, missing codepage or helper program, or other error |
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Time for silly questions! Is this a new drive? Has it been partitioned and formated? If yes, does it work with other machines? |
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Merak75AKA "Vukodlak75" MVM join:2001-10-27 Willoughby, OH 1 edit |
said by adsldude:Time for silly questions! Is this a new drive? Has it been partitioned and formated? If yes, does it work with other machines? It is about a year old WD My Book 500GB formatted in WinXP as NTFS.It mounts in Windows and Mac OS X I can manually mount it like this: sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdg1 /mnt/tmp |
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Merak75 |
I guess I will be manually mounting/unmounting like so:
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdg1 /windows/WD500GB
sudo umount /dev/sdg1
Kind of annoying but I don't use this drive too often on Linux. |
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salahx join:2001-12-03 Saint Louis, MO |
to Merak75
I think I know what might be going on here. Recently, ntfs-3g went all UTF-8, and it no longer recognized the locale option. With gconf-editor, go to /system/storage/default_options/ntfs_3g. If "locate=" is there, remove that value. |
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Merak75AKA "Vukodlak75" MVM join:2001-10-27 Willoughby, OH |
Will try that when I get to work tomorrow. Thanks |
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said by salahx:I think I know what might be going on here. Recently, ntfs-3g went all UTF-8, and it no longer recognized the locale option. With gconf-editor, go to /system/storage/default_options/ntfs_3g. If "locate=" is there, remove that value. That didn't work |
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