Problems mounting my WinXP NTFS drive.

Guest

I've made sure NTFS support was compiled in with the kernel and when I try to mount, I get the error msg..

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems

Any idea why this is coming up? What is the max number of file systems you can have mounted at a time? Please help; all I want to do is listen to my MP3s.

rac · Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 10:57 pm Post subject:

What is the exact mount command you tried? If you added a line to /etc/fstab, what does it look like?
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Guest · Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 11:17 pm Post subject:

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp

/mnt/winxp exists... and my fstab is...

/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs owner,uid=1000,gid=1000,d=1000,async,ro 0 0

fidler · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 162 Location: Utah

Type cat /proc/filesystems

Does it list NTFS?

If not maybe you need to load the module or compile in the NTFS statically.

Guest · Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 7:03 pm Post subject:

Yea it lists it.

He4D · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 26

Hm.. i always make it with
# mount -a /dev/hda5 /mnt/winnt
and it worxx

pilla · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 5:18 pm Post subject:

Isn't it already mounted?

Guest · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 6:58 pm Post subject:

No it doesn't work... NTFS support is compiled into the kernel... does anyone here have Windows XP and has mounted the drive in gentoo?

longint · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 8:36 pm Post subject:

U R sure it is an NTFS-partition? Try this:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp

If it doesn't work do a 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' and post the ouptu here...

splooge · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 636

Just tried it.

mkdir /mnt/ntfs
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs

Works fine for me =)

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Worst case scenario, scrap all those options and add them in one by one, mounting and unmounting.

I mount NTFS all the time, and I use the following command line:
mount -o umask=000,ro /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c
(umask is set to 000 to have read access across the board.. not like anyone could ever write to it.)

I'm modularized here...
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pen · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 17 Location: Great NW

Technically, this may not apply directory to this thread, but it might be nice to have an answer to the following as part of the thread...

Could it be a problem of the NTFS partition being on a "dynamic" disk as apposed to a "basic" disk?

Does this make any difference to the Linux NTFS driver?

/Pen

delta407 · Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 9:33 pm Post subject:

No difference to the driver, but if it's on a dynamic disk, you have to have dynamic disk partition table support in the kernel.
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