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senruss

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Registered: 2025-06-22

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[SOLVED] Trouble accessing to SSD "wrong fs type, bad option..."

Hello! I started having this problem on dolphin, where I cannot access the other drive currently on my computer.
The drive in question has Windows 10 installed on it, and Iit used to be my main os. It's only recently that I've installed Arch, with limine as the bootloader, so that I can dualboot on both of these drives.

It's only after updating some packages that i starting having this error when trying to mount the drive in dolphin :
"An error occurred while accessing 'Basic data partition', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sda3 at /run/media/(me)/461A126E1A125AEF: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error"
I've tried to find an answer but people had slightly different problems,  usually without an answer that corresponded to my case. Maybe I haven't searched enough.

The filetype of this drive is NTFS, and even when installing ntfs-3g, it didn't seem to solve anything.

Last edited by senruss (2025-06-24 08:33:38)

jl2

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Registered: 2022-06-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Trouble accessing to SSD "wrong fs type, bad option..."

The error is cut off for some reason, it should end in something like "please check dmesg"
Try mounting and post the last couple of lines of the 'dmesg' command. It should contain a FS-related error.

Also, to use NTFS-3G you need to append "-t ntfs3" to your mount command.

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senruss

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Registered: 2025-06-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Trouble accessing to SSD "wrong fs type, bad option..."

The error is cut off for some reason, it should end in something like "please check dmesg"
Try mounting and post the last couple of lines of the 'dmesg' command. It should contain a FS-related error.

Also, to use NTFS-3G you need to append "-t ntfs3" to your mount command.

Huh. I've tried mounting the drive via terminal, following instructions I haven't previously seen, and it worked. The weird thing is, I can only manage to mount from terminal, and not from Dolphin.
The problem is somewhat solved. Thanks for the help anyway!

(Checked this website by the way. Sorry for wasting your time-)

jl2

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Re: [SOLVED] Trouble accessing to SSD "wrong fs type, bad option..."

Two things:
* Please mark your post as solved by prepending a '[SOLVED]" to your OP's title by editing it (you'll need to shorten the title)
* You might want to open a issue at dolphin, but that's up to you.

edit: scrap the last part, you mounted with sudo, didn't you? (not a bad thing, just a guess)
You can create a fstab entry for the drive, and add use the following mount options:
* "user" to allow the user to mount the drive without root rights required
* "uid=[your UID],gid=[your GID]" to set the permissions right.

Then you should be able to mount the filesystem from within dolphin (or at least I can with thunar).

Also, disable secure boot for windows. MANDATORY. it will cause all sorts of issues, mainly only being able to mount the windows root disk read-only.

Last edited by jl2 (2025-06-22 19:48:15)

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