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train_wreck

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 97

randomly unable to re-mount NTFS drive after unmount.... no errors.

I have Arch running on an ALIX model 3d2 system. It has worked flawlessly as a NAS system with a USB Western Digital hard drive, formatted NTFS. After the latest "pacman -Syu", I am now unable to re-mount the drive. The drive is configured to auto-mount on boot via the /etc/fstab entry; I am using the drive's UUID as the reference in fstab. On boot, the drive mounts successfully. If i unmount, and then try to mount again, the mount command appears to run normally (no output), but the drive is not mounted. There is no log entry of anything in journalctl, the drive just fails to mount. The drive has been fully scanned under a Windows machine and found to have no errors, and I am able to mount & unmount the drive on other Arch systems with no problem.I have installed the ntfs-3g package on this machine (I believe the driver is called "FUSE"), and am still able to read/write to/from the drive when it is successfully mounted.

Any ideas where to go from here?

train_wreck

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 97

Re: randomly unable to re-mount NTFS drive after unmount.... no errors.

bump...... anyone?

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: randomly unable to re-mount NTFS drive after unmount.... no errors.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … te#Bumping

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alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

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Re: randomly unable to re-mount NTFS drive after unmount.... no errors.

Even though there's no output, posting your command may be helpful. If nothing else there would be no need to ask if you've tried using the verbose flag, or if you're trying to mount explicitly (eg. mount <dev> <dir>) or implicitly (eg. mount <dir>).

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