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mythus

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From: MS Gulf Coast

Registered: 2008-05-15

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[SOLVED!] Unable to mount NTFS partition - No Such File or Directory

Greetings,

So far I have been enjoying my experience with Arch Linux, which started only five days ago. I have gotten everything up and running, and have the system tweaked to how I want it, which is nice. I have spent a lot of time reading forum posts and searching the wiki, learning more and more about linux and arch linux particuarly. It has been a fun time so far.

But I have hit a brick wall.

I cannot mount my windows (ntfs) partition. I had stored some files on there (desktop themes and documents mainly) that I was hoping to pull back off to use on this linux. I have used other distributions including sabayon, debian, and the *buntu flavors so I am somewhat familiar with linux and have worked with mounting problems with ntfs before (in sabayon).

The error I get when trying to mount my NTFS partition is...

ntfs-3g-mount: failed to access mountpoint /mnt/windows: No such file or directory

Here is my 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 /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1  /mnt/windows  ntfs-3g  users,auto,uid=1000,gid=100,locale=en_US.utf8  0 0

I am sure it is probably something simple that I am overlooking. I have searched the forums and wiki and tried many of the different things there. I have looked in the mnt folder and saw that there is indeed no directory there, but not sure what to do about that. Heh, at least I got it where I can attempt to mount as normal user lol.

Thanks in advance for any and all help on this matter.

Last edited by mythus (2008-05-15 16:21:27)

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Asgaroth

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From: Hesse, Germany

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 58

Re: [SOLVED!] Unable to mount NTFS partition - No Such File or Directory

The directory for the mountpoint is missing:
as root:
mkdir /mnt/windows

And welcome to ArchLinux btw.

Last edited by Asgaroth (2008-05-15 16:16:58)

mythus

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From: MS Gulf Coast

Registered: 2008-05-15

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Re: [SOLVED!] Unable to mount NTFS partition - No Such File or Directory

LOL I knew it had to be something simple!

Thanks that fixed it. And thanks for the welcome.

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mythus

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Registered: 2008-05-15

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Re: [SOLVED!] Unable to mount NTFS partition - No Such File or Directory

UPDATE

Wicd now starts up on it's on so problem 2 is solved! Thanks!

Problem 1 is still present. I have added my ntfs to fstab and have succesfully mounted it using command line. However in dolphin I cannot select either the ntfs partition or any mounted cd/dvd/usb drive... It bounces away from it refusing to select those locations.... I even removed the # in front of my cd drives in fstab, still no go...

Opps.. I accidently posted to this long closed thread.... I was using this thread as a reference and well.. posted using the Quick Reply box when I meant to post in a different thread. Please disreguard this post.

Last edited by mythus (2009-03-10 22:27:29)

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EDllT

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Re: [SOLVED!] Unable to mount NTFS partition - No Such File or Directory

Just literally created an account to post my own solution

Basically I had kept on getting the same error when executing the following
ntfs-3g /dev/block/vold/public:8,65 /media/HDD -o rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
or
mount -t ntfs-3g -o rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime /dev/block/vold/public:8,65 /media/HDD

I then made sure for the millionth time that /media/HDD is a valid path, has correct permissions and the same thing for the block
Kept searching for hours then remembered strace, so I ran it with strace

strace ntfs-3g /dev/block/vold/public:8,65 /media/HDD -o ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
Then found the issue
ntfs-3g has a weird probably ancient bug where it somehow ignores commas causing the path to become
/dev/block/vold/public:8 instead of /dev/block/vold/public:8,65

The solution to this is to find the ACTUAL path of the block which in my case was in
/dev/block/sde1
So I should've done this instead
ntfs-3g /dev/block/sde1 /media/HDD -o rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime

To find the actual path of your block, run "blkid" then look by reading descriptions, etc
Hopefully someone finds this helpful one day

d.ALT

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Registered: 2019-05-10

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Re: [SOLVED!] Unable to mount NTFS partition - No Such File or Directory

You're replying to a 15yr old topic just to say what's the syntax of ntfs-3g ... LoL! 

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WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED!] Unable to mount NTFS partition - No Such File or Directory

Yeah, please don't do that.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … bumping%22

Closing.

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