Problem in automounting in Suse 11.0 for NTFS USB Hard disk.

[pd]

ntfs suse usb

Hi!
I had just installed the suse 11.0 in my system and it was initially detecting all the removable disks correctly automatically.
After that I installed some packeges and then when I checked again with my portable USB hard disks then it doesn't allow me to read them...although they are listed in the storage page...While trying to access them I get this message.For another VFAT pen drive it still works fine...One more thing...when I mount them manually as root it allows me to access them as root only...but when I check the property of those folders which come by default...they show that user can mount them...and their mount path as "/media/" but they actually appear in "/home/media/" and as user I am not able to go inside them as I find the same error written below.


Below is the error I get while accessing my USB disks as user.

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd3, missing code page or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

This is the result of the command "dmesg | tail"

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

NTFS-fs error (device sdd2): parse_options(): Unrecognized mount option locale.
NTFS-fs warning (device sdd2): parse_options(): Option utf8 is no longer supported, using option nls=utf8. Please use option nls=utf8 in the future and make sure utf8 is compiled either as a module or into the kernel.

Below is my ftab file's content...

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST380011A_4JV7KYTJ-part9 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST380011A_4JV7KYTJ-part10 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST380011A_4JV7KYTJ-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3160211AS_6PT1QPH7-part1 /windows/D ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST380011A_4JV7KYTJ-part5 /windows/E ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST380011A_4JV7KYTJ-part6 /windows/F ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST380011A_4JV7KYTJ-part7 /windows/G vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3160211AS_6PT1QPH7-part5 /windows/H ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0


Please help me solve the problem.:|


Thanks,
pkd

 

[|IAngel|]

Re: Problem in automounting in Suse 11.0 for NTFS USB Hard d

Fix:

sudo ln -s /sbin/ntfs-3g /sbin/ntfs

Enjoy!

 

[fiquran]

Wow, angel nice trick I really liked that one, a nice workaround for the problem.

However, as I said, it is just a workaround. pd, this trick might work, in case it does not, I think you have a problem with your ntfs configuration, so what I suggest is:

- reformat your usb hard disk as ntfs.
- run ntfs-config and make your hard drive a writeable one.
- copy all the data needed to your hard drive.

 

[pd]

Re: Problem in automounting in Suse 11.0 for NTFS USB Hard d

Hey,
The ln -s commnd worked...