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nwarrenfl

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Registered: 2010-12-23

Posts: 2

Mount (one partition) LDM on Arch

Hi everybody,

I'm having a hard time mounting a NTFS drive.
On Windows i did merge two partition to be one (spanning i think).

It is recognized as one partition though:

Disk /dev/sdb: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000acf3f

Device    Boot Start        End    Blocks  Id System
/dev/sdb1         63 1953523119 976761528+ 42 SFS

With normal NTFS driver it mounts but is read-only, using NTFS-3G it gives this error (that's with Nemo file manager):

Error mounting /dev/sdb2 at /run/media/double/DATA: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=100,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdb2" "/run/media/double/DATA"' exited with non-zero exit status 12: Failed to read last sector (1953517567): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
   or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
   or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
   or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
   or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb2' 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?

I did run chkdsk on Windows, that's not the problem.

I tried this without success:

mdadm --build --verbose /dev/md0 --chunk=64 --level=linear
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/md0 /media/data

How can i mount it?
Thanks in advance.