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ringfin

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Registered: 2009-10-30

Posts: 50

unable to mount NTFS ,wield

fdisk -l sda4  is NTFS
but when I use  blkid  , shows  sda4 as ext4   SOS!!!
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[jing@DELL ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xad20e871

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          13      102400   de  Dell Utility
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              13        1288    10240000    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            1288        8937    61440000    5  Extended
/dev/sda4            8937       36364   220310406    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5            1288        1531     1951866   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            1531        1543       96358+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7            1543        3731    17575078+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8            3731        8937    41816571   83  Linux
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[jing@DELL ~]$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda2: UUID="a51538e0-a115-4d06-827e-c3276403e2c8" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda4: UUID="4b8d3780-c999-4e36-ac4a-1f4e07e695e5" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="47af0fad-3536-453f-bee5-43e352bd2d28" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda6: UUID="60e68f9a-ab2e-48dd-bfb5-bb3b83a7dbeb" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda7: UUID="c7999879-de6b-4fa4-9e1f-a1f63537a607" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda8: UUID="6ffdc1cc-dbc0-40e3-a0cb-1a4522479626" TYPE="ext3"
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[jing@DELL ~]$ sudo cat /etc/fstab
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda7 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda8 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4  /mnt/file   ntfs-3g    silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8    0   0
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[jing@DELL ~]$ sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sda4 /mnt/file
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda4': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda4' 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?

ultra_violence

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2009-10-30

Posts: 30

Re: unable to mount NTFS ,wield

Have you tried ntfsfix?

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