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hifiboombox

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Registered: 2014-07-08

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] NTFS External drive fails to mount

The drive is a USB 3.0 Toshiba 1 TB external drive. It was formatted as NTFS on Windows 7.

The drive shows up in the output of lsblk as /dev/sde

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0   1.8T  0 disk 
└─sda1   8:1    0   1.8T  0 part /mnt/hoodwink
sdb      8:16   0 465.8G  0 disk 
├─sdb1   8:17   0    15G  0 part /
├─sdb2   8:18   0   100G  0 part /home
├─sdb3   8:19   0     2M  0 part 
└─sdb4   8:20   0 350.8G  0 part 
sde      8:64   0 931.5G  0 disk 
└─sde1   8:65   0 931.5G  0 part 

and in fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sde: 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: 0xd0e4cee4

Device    Boot Start        End    Blocks  Id System
/dev/sde1       2048 1953523119 976760536   7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

I have tried the following commands:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sde1 /mnt/please-work
mount /dev/sde1 /mnt/please-work
ntfs-3g /dev/sde1 /mnt/please-work

All three of these commands result in this error:

fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first

`modprobe fuse` does not produce any output, and attempting to mount afterwards still results in the exact same error message.

Last edited by hifiboombox (2014-07-08 04:36:24)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: [SOLVED] NTFS External drive fails to mount

Perhaps you have upgraded the kernel and haven't rebooted.

See if "lsmod | grep fuse" returns anything.

hifiboombox

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Registered: 2014-07-08

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] NTFS External drive fails to mount

Rebooting did the trick! Ha, what a quick fix that is. Thank you so much.

For anybody who is reading this in the future and has odd permission issues, this worked well for me:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o uid=YOURUSERNAME,gid=users,umask=0022 /dev/DRIVEPARTITION /mnt/SOMEFOLDER

Last edited by hifiboombox (2014-07-08 03:59:36)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] NTFS External drive fails to mount

For anybody who is reading this in the future and has odd permission issues, this worked well for me:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o uid=YOURUSERNAME,gid=users,umask=0022 /dev/DRIVEPARTITION /mnt/SOMEFOLDER

It's in the wiki already: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nt … oup.2Fuser

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