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webhawg

I have an external USB drive (1TB) setup to be shared over my home network via Samba. The drive can be seen by other computers no problem and files can be copied and deleted. However, if I want to copy a number of files to the drive, some will get copied to the drive with no issues, but eventually ...

webhawg

Can you try deleting the partition and recreate it under linux (gfdisk, fdisk...)
Then run mkfs.ntfs -f /dev/sdX1
I've tried this before with no luck.

# mkfs.ntfs -f /dev/sdc1

Creating NTFS volume structures.
ntfs_resident_attr_value_resize(): Entering for new size 56.
ntfs_attr_record_resize ...

webhawg

Did you unmount your disk correctly under windows?
You can try:
Under windows:
chkdsk D: /f
Under linux
ntfsfix /dev/sdc1
This worked as far as I can tell...
# ntfsfix /dev/sdc1
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sdc1 was processed successfully.
But I still can't mount it. Weird ...

webhawg

Jaglover wrote:I have absolutely no experience with NTFS under Linux, but are you sure you have FUSE enabled in kernel? Methinks you need it. Just my 2¢.

Fair question, I have it enabled in the kernel and also have sys-fs/fuse installed. Do I need one and not the other? Is there a conflict?

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CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y

webhawg

I've fiddled further with this drive. I opened my Windows 7 VM and formatted to FAT32 and formatted again to NTFS which created one partition. I still can't mount it. I do have different error messages.

# fdisk /dev/sdc

Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdc: 931.5 GiB, 1000204885504 bytes ...

webhawg

I originally opened this post and need to re-visit the issue again. I've done a clean installation, changed drives, and reformatted. I'm still unable to mount an external NTFS drive. Can someone help me out?

Here is what I see...
# fdisk /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 931.5 GiB, 1000204885504 bytes ...

webhawg

Seeing if anyone else has advice here...

Should I use gptfdisk or parted to recreate the partitions and then do "mkfs.ntfs" on the new partition?

webhawg

This looks like a GPT partitioned disk. Don't use fdisk on it, but gptfdisk, cgdisk or parted instead.

Also ensure that your kernel has CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION enabled.
Thanks for the reply. I haven't heard of cgdisk. Are you saying to use gptfdisk or parted to recreate the partitions and then do ...

webhawg

I've been able to mount NTFS drives in the past using the ntfs3g sys package. For some reason, I've been unable to mount a new drive on my clean installation. I believe that I've configured my kernel correctly and installed the ntfs3g package correctly, but can't figure it out. I've also tried a few ...

webhawg

Hu wrote:Please post the output of grep -E '^[^#]' .config for the configuration file that generated the above message.

Have you had a chance to look at my .config? I'd really like to figure this out soon. Thank you.

webhawg

VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
Kernal panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Any other suggestions? I'm really close to moving back to the old IDE/PATA ...

webhawg

I've changed my fstab to all UUID's, changed my kernel to the new drivers, and still getting this on boot...
VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
Kernal panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount ...

webhawg

execute the command ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ This will give you the UUID numbers for your partitions.
# ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 5 17:17 1a07d1ed-8865-4f58-be67-151dfa8a3fe9 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 5 17:17 9e1e70b9-ef80-43df-b20e ...

webhawg

Have you changed the fstab entries for the disk reference change? I would suggest refencing the disk partitions by label or UUID. It allows the fstab to be used with the IDE drivers and the PATA drivers.

You need to change the kernel line in thr grub configuration file to change root=/dev/hda3 to ...

webhawg

CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_IDE_XFER_MODE=y
CONFIG_IDE_ATAPI=y
CONFIG_IDE_GD=y
CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD_VERBOSE_ERRORS=y
CONFIG_IDE_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_SFF=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y ...

webhawg

It appears that either /proc is unmounted or you did not set CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y . What is the output of grep -E '^[^#]' /path/to/active/.config ?
It is not set.
CONFIG_X86_32=y
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_INSTRUCTION_DECODER=y
CONFIG_OUTPUT_FORMAT="elf32-i386"
CONFIG_ARCH_DEFCONFIG="arch/x86/configs ...

webhawg

All your drives should be sd X nodes, like I said above. Since you have hd X nodes, you are probably still using the old IDE drivers instead of the new PATA drivers. What is the output of lspci ; lspci -n ; zgrep -E '^[^#]' /proc/config.gz ?
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 ...

webhawg

I'm not sure why I didn't do this before posting, but I deleted a lot of temp files that I no longer needed. After doing that, my system is running better. I was out of space so the error messages were true.

webhawg

Also, looking at your fstab, you are referencing /dev/hd? devices that are resizefs. Is that correct? It is incorrect for him to do that. Modern systems should be using SATA/PATA drivers, so all hard disks should be /dev/sd X . Since fdisk shows some hda nodes, we know that the OP's kernel is ...

webhawg

msalerno wrote:Genkernel or did you configure it yourself?

I've had this configuration for a few years now. How should my fstab be configured?

webhawg

I'm having a hard time figuring out the problem with my Gentoo installation. I am unable to do anything within the environment. Most of the message are about swap space and disk space, but I'm unable to verify if they are indeed full. I don't think either of them are actually full.

# df -h
df ...

webhawg

Thanks for the reply. I'm still unable to get it to work....

/etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default
:DEFAULT: options:usedots cnidscheme:dbd
/mnt/WDBackupDrive/macbookpro/TimeMachine "TimeMachine" options:tm

/etc/netatalk/netatalk.conf
ATALK_UNIX_CHARSET='LOCALE'
ATALK_MAC_CHARSET='MAC_ROMAN ...

webhawg

Could you post a few of the config files that you used and edited to get this working?

I can copy/paste files into my TimeMachine directory, but I cannot get TimeMachine to backup anything. I just need a little direction in how to get this working. I'd appreciate it.

webhawg

VoidMage wrote: Do I need to repeat myself ?

I don't see 'required' as a revdep-rebuild option.

webhawg

I'm still having issues with libffi.so.6. What can I do to get past these errors? I'm not oppose to re-installing everything. Just not sure it would work.

/usr/bin/g-ir-compiler --includedir=. GdkPixbuf-2.0.gir -o GdkPixbuf-2.0.typelib
/usr/bin/g-ir-compiler: error while loading shared libraries ...

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