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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

ntfs-3g: "You must specify exactly one device and exactly one mount p"

Hi, everybody,

After the upgrade to kernel 2.6.25 HAL no longer mounts my NTFS-formatted USB hard drive correctly. That is, the file names containing non-english characters cannot be seen. There is a remedy for this problem (KDE, HAL):

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Locale_issues

which I used before the upgrade successfully. Now as soon as I try this method, I have an unsuccessful mounting. The error message is:

ntfs-3g: You must specify exactly one device and exactly one mount point

Now with new kernel, new ntfs-3g and new fuse all at once new problems come as no real surprise, but what about new solutions ?

_Marco_

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 242

Re: ntfs-3g: "You must specify exactly one device and exactly one mount p"

do you encounter the same problem mounting it manually as root?

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/partition /mnt/mount_point

I don't know almost anything of HAL but this may be a temporary solution...

TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,523

Re: ntfs-3g: "You must specify exactly one device and exactly one mount p"

Try blkid to identify the ntfs partition and mount it by its UUID

UUID=6129dab9-dfb1-471c-a3bf-ec2860930259 swap swap defaults 0 0

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: ntfs-3g: "You must specify exactly one device and exactly one mount p"

do you encounter the same problem mounting it manually as root?

No, I don't.

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: ntfs-3g: "You must specify exactly one device and exactly one mount p"

Maybe it's time to stop using KDE then

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carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: ntfs-3g: "You must specify exactly one device and exactly one mount p"

Try blkid to identify the ntfs partition and mount it by its UUID

UUID=6129dab9-dfb1-471c-a3bf-ec2860930259 swap swap defaults 0 0

kde used to be dumb: I had to provide /dev/disk-by-UUID/$partitionUUID because KDE failed to recognize UUID= in fstab.
Maybe that's why ntfs-3g is complaining requesting the user to supply 2 mount points