Error Mounting, wrong FS type

laetusvulgus · 2024-08-14 01:29:36

Hello everyone!!!

Before we start, I started using Linux only a few days ago, so I sadly don't really know how to fix or troubleshoot stuff that well, so if I have to post some additional things, make sure to tell me!!!

So, I have this 1TB HDD that I want to use. But I cant. Whenever I try to mount it, this error pops up in Dolphin: **The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /run/media/res/46E82DD634F08774: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error**

Anyone know why this might be happening? Might've I screwed something up while setting up or installing Arch?

ajgringo619 · 2024-08-14 01:35:59

Was this drive originally created with Windows? If so, are you running Arch in a dual-boot with Windows?

Dreick · 2024-08-14 01:38:06

Could you paste the output of 'lsblk -f'?

If it is an ntfs Filesystem make sure ntfs-3g is installed.

Last edited by Dreick (2024-08-14 01:40:53)

laetusvulgus · 2024-08-14 01:56:58

ajgringo619 wrote:

Was this drive originally created with Windows? If so, are you running Arch in a dual-boot with Windows?

I switched from Windows to Arch, yes. It was originally a Drive in windows, and no I am not dual-booting. I am only using Arch, as far as I know, I've deleted every single trace of Windows.

Last edited by laetusvulgus (2024-08-14 01:59:36)

laetusvulgus · 2024-08-14 01:58:54

Dreick wrote:

Could you paste the output of 'lsblk -f'?
If it is an ntfs Filesystem make sure ntfs-3g is installed.

NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1 vfat FAT32 9DE0-2D4B 441.3M 14% /boot
└─sda2 ext4 1.0 365fc09b-661c-4f56-8223-14096316f8b6 14.6G 81% /
sdb
└─sdb1 ntfs 46E82DD634F08774
zram0 [SWAP]

And my ntfs-3g is up-to-date.

ajgringo619 · 2024-08-14 02:16:02

laetusvulgus wrote:

ajgringo619 wrote:
Was this drive originally created with Windows? If so, are you running Arch in a dual-boot with Windows?
I switched from Windows to Arch, yes. It was originally a Drive in windows, and no I am not dual-booting. I am only using Arch, as far as I know, I've deleted every single trace of Windows.

Did your Windows install have FastBoot enabled?

Dreick · 2024-08-14 02:16:16

Thanks for the output. Can you try

ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt
?

If the output comes out with something like 'unsafe state...', whatever, try:

ntfsfix /dev/sdb1

then try to mount again.

If this doesn't help, try

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt -o remove_hiberfile

If the error should be something else, please paste it here.

Last edited by Dreick (2024-08-14 02:16:42)

laetusvulgus · 2024-08-14 02:22:15

ajgringo619 wrote:

laetusvulgus wrote:
ajgringo619 wrote:
Was this drive originally created with Windows? If so, are you running Arch in a dual-boot with Windows?
I switched from Windows to Arch, yes. It was originally a Drive in windows, and no I am not dual-booting. I am only using Arch, as far as I know, I've deleted every single trace of Windows.
Did your Windows install have FastBoot enabled?

Yes, pretty sure I left it on.

laetusvulgus · 2024-08-14 02:24:06

Dreick wrote:

Thanks for the output. Can you try
ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt
?
If the output comes out with something like 'unsafe state...', whatever, try:
ntfsfix /dev/sdb1
then try to mount again.
If this doesn't help, try
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt -o remove_hiberfile
If the error should be something else, please paste it here.

Oh my god, ''ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt'' worked! Thank you so much! I've spent days, trying to fix this, I've gone through TENS of different forum posts on 4 different sites to no avail. And it was this simple? Thank you so much.

laetusvulgus · 2024-08-14 02:27:52

I'm not quite sure how to mark this as ''Solved'', so I'll leave it as it is..

Dreick · 2024-08-14 02:31:50

laetusvulgus wrote:

Dreick wrote:
Thanks for the output. Can you try
ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt
?
If the output comes out with something like 'unsafe state...', whatever, try:
ntfsfix /dev/sdb1
then try to mount again.
If this doesn't help, try
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt -o remove_hiberfile
If the error should be something else, please paste it here.

Oh my god, ''ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt'' worked! Thank you so much! I've spent days, trying to fix this, I've gone through TENS of different forum posts on 4 different sites to no avail. And it was this simple? Thank you so much.

That is... kind of strange. Maybe Dolphin tries to mount with a wrong option then.

If this is not a USB-drive you should consider creating a permanent directory to mount it and add it to fstab.

If it is a portable drive, and you want to mount it using dolphin, you would need to investigate the problem further.

seth · 2024-08-14 08:33:54

Dolphin will use udisks2, udisks2 will default to ntfs3 instead of ntfs-3g, ntfs3 is not as lenient wrt filesystems being marked dirty.
If you were actually using "-o remove_hiberfile", windows was likely hibernating (in doubt because of windows fast-start), it might be in an inconsistent state, if you still have windows installed, boot that, run chckdsk and properly shut it down (3rd link below)
If you don't have windows installed, running chkdsk on that drive from some other windows system is a good idea, otherwise ntfsfix might just about suffice.
Writing to an inconsistent filesystem implies risking data loss, so don't just ignore this if there's important data on the drive and you don't have any backups.

cryptearth · 2024-08-14 09:58:17

overall: don't use ntfs in linux
for a fixed drive: use a posix fs lije ext4, xfs, btrfs, zfs
for a removable drive to exchange data between different os: use exfat

gwarah · 2025-04-19 16:45:09

Today I've got a similar problem with a Virtualbox VM windows. I've booted this VM running an clonezilla ISO to backup the widows system into an external ntfs formated hdd. Backup ok, no error or warning message.

After trying to mount in physical machine, I've got same error by dolphin mount but manually mount works fine

user@machine:~/temp$ sudo mount /dev/sde1 myhdd

btw, I'm gonna follow cryptearth suggestion: next backups change ntfs to other partition format

Last edited by gwarah (2025-04-19 16:46:20)

iambatman · 2025-07-26 03:22:15

Dreick wrote:

Thanks for the output. Can you try
ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt
?
If the output comes out with something like 'unsafe state...', whatever, try:
ntfsfix /dev/sdb1
then try to mount again.
If this doesn't help, try
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt -o remove_hiberfile
If the error should be something else, please paste it here.

I faced this exact same problem, and it got resolved by ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt .
Thank you very much Dreick!

Last edited by iambatman (2025-07-26 03:22:54)

seth · 2025-07-26 05:56:27

PSA: if you've to remove a hiberfile to mount NTFS that means you're force-opening a probably dirty filesystem that's still in used by a (hibernating) windows process.
=> 3rd link below. Mandatory.
Disable it (it's NOT the BIOS setting!) and reboot windows and linux twice for voodo reasons.

Opening a filesystem from two OS at the same time will eventually cause data loss. If you do this w/ bitlocker active, that'd be "all data lost".
On top of that the hibernating windows will leave HW in an undefined state, meaning you cannot properly use it from linux.

mymoto_KNJR · 2025-11-18 10:51:03

Dreick wrote:

Thanks for the output. Can you try
ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt
?
If the output comes out with something like 'unsafe state...', whatever, try:
ntfsfix /dev/sdb1
then try to mount again.
If this doesn't help, try
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt -o remove_hiberfile
If the error should be something else, please paste it here.

Made an account just to thank you. This worked swimmingly.

Situational data:
I'm on CachyOS,
removed and reinstalled Whatsie for inoperable libicui18n.so.76
used Timeshift with live machine,
used Timeshift with Linux Mint live USB boot via Ventoy by secondary craptop
full system upgrade
could not access my /dev/sda1 on Dolphin
used chkdsk on HBCD_PE_x64.iso cmd via Ventoy
defragged on HBCD_PE_x64.iso via Ventoy
used chkdsk on HBCD_PE_x64.iso cmd via Ventoy again
rebooted onto CachyOS
found this
installed ntfs-3g with yay
used ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt
opened now-operable /dev/sda1

MegaSync's now screwed because of inoperable libicui18n.so.76
So is Whatsie, still

But

Got all my drives back, lovely progress

seth · 2025-11-18 13:59:42

PSA, again: this is not a proper way to deal with the situation - ntfs-3g is more lenient than ntfs3 but if the FS is still open somewhere else the parallel access will cause further inconsistencies and ultimately data loss.
Make sure to always properly close the FS - that means umount, "safely remove" and not booting linux while windows is (secretly) hibernating.

sjr · 2025-12-17 20:01:01

I am having a similar error. My External drive was working fine with my new Arch linux laptop until it was improperly disconnected. Now I get this error:

An error occurred while accessing 'easystore', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /run/media/anarchomomma/easystore: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

When I run the first recommended fix here's what I get:
[anarchomomma@abovebook ~]$ ntfs-3g/dev/sda1/mnt
bash: ntfs-3g/dev/sda1/mnt: No such file or directory
[anarchomomma@abovebook ~]$

I just installed the ntfs-3g.
This was created initially on a windows but I've been using it on Linux Mint for several years with no issues and on my new Linux Arch for a few days with no issues...until the improper unmount.
I'm not sure how to navigate to the proper directory nor what the proper directory is. Thanks.

sjr · 2025-12-18 00:00:19

I realized I had poor spacing in my first attempt. So I redid the advised fixes. Here are my results:

[anarchomomma@abovebook ~]$ ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt
Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE
library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated
FUSE support and make it setuid root. Please see more information at
https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/wiki/NTFS-3G-FAQ

[anarchomomma@abovebook ~]$ ntfsfix /dev/sda1
Mounting volume... Error opening read-only '/dev/sda1': Permission denied
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors... Error opening read-only '/dev/sda1': Permission denied
FAILED
Failed to startup volume: Permission denied
Error opening '/dev/sda1': Read-only file system
Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.

[anarchomomma@abovebook ~]$ chkdsk
bash: chkdsk: command not found

[anarchomomma@abovebook ~]$ mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt -o remove_hiberfile
Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE
library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated
FUSE support and make it setuid root. Please see more information at
https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/wiki/NTFS-3G-FAQ
[anarchomomma@abovebook ~]$

Scimmia · 2025-12-18 00:11:59

I really don't know why this thread keeps getting bumped, but sure. sjr, check https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sudo and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo … nds/chkdsk

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