[SOLVED] fstab mtab mounting issues

[bonesTdog]

I foolishly installed pysdm to get a partition to auto mount and now have a variety of mounting issues I have not been able to figure out. My primary issue is I now have two files in /media that are not partitions but look like my system struggling to mount them causing a startup error message.

The correct mount should be /dev/sdb2 /media/Data Storage
The two bad entries in /media:
Data\
Data\040Storage

My fstab entries look accurate and I have a whole collection of partitions that mount correctly. This was working fine but recently decided not to work. I don't see any reference in fstab to the above directories but wonder if the spaced in the name is causing some heartburn all of a sudden??

Here is my fstab entry:
/dev/sdb2 /media/Data\ Storage ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

Any help?

[devils casper]

Post all the contents of /etc/fstab file and output of fdisk -l command here.

[bonesTdog]

/etc \>-- cat fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=6b3c1db3-68c6-4173-af0f-0c5b45a70cd9 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
#Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=A2725BD3725BAAB5 /media/Bootable_Backup ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdb2 :
#UUID=80F6E9A8F6E99F22 /media/Data\ Storage ntfs-3g defaults,nosuid,nodev,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sda4 :
UUID=78DACA7DDACA3762 /media/RECOVERY ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=BC4AF0E74AF09F78 /media/SYSTEM ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=60c7ee48-6cdb-4d9b-8ca6-204f580ec499 none swap sw 0 0


/dev/sda7 /media/Virtualbox ext3 errors=remount-ro,users,user_xattr,user 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /media/Data\ Storage ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

[bonesTdog]

how do I get "output of fdisk -l"? It doesn't seem to do anything... Sorry, newbie...

[Jonathan183]

sudo fdisk -l

also suggest you post output of

mount

as well.

[bonesTdog]

/etc \>-- fdisk -l
/etc \>-- mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Bootable_Backup type fuseblk (rw,locale=en_US.utf
/dev/sda4 on /media/RECOVERY type fuseblk (rw,locale=en_US.utf
/dev/sda1 on /media/SYSTEM type fuseblk (rw,locale=en_US.utf
/dev/sda7 on /media/Virtualbox type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,commit=0)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/bonestdog/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=bonestdog)
/dev/sdb2 on /media/Data Storage type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)

[bonesTdog]

Here is what is listed in /media. You can see the Data\ and Data\040Storage. I can not remove them, cd to them or interact with them at all.

/media \>-- ls -1
Bootable_Backup
Data\
Data\040Storage
Data Storage
RECOVERY
SYSTEM
Virtualbox

[devils casper]

Post the output of this

cd /media/Data
ls -l

I have never tried mount point have space in it's name.
There must be some problem while parsing escape sequence /Data\ Storage.
Have you tried create new folder, Data_Storage and mount partition?
Try this

cd /media
sudo mkdir Data_Storage

Edit /etc/fstab file. Replace /media/Data\ Storage with /media/Data_Storage. Reboot machine.

[bonesTdog]

OK, I am learning....

These entries ARE in fact directories! I need to input Data\\ and Data\\040Storage to work with them. Two backslashes is the key. Can I simply delete them? Is the system trying to load/mount them since they are in the /media folder but not finding them in fstab and creating an error? it is all starting to make sense and I think I should delete them but am afraid of messing something else up...

[devils casper]

Is the system trying to load/mount them since they are in the /media folder but not finding them in fstab and creating an error?

You can mount any partition anywhere and Linux doesn't look specifically in /media/ folder for that.
During boot up, Linux check /etc/fstab file and mount partitions according to instructions given in /etc/fstab file. If you replace /media/xyz with /Windows/C, Linux will mount partition at /Windows/C. There is one condition, folder (mount_point) /Windows/C must exist.

Have you tried to edit /etc/fstab file and replace Data Storage with Data_Storage?
Could you post the output of ls -l /media/Data_Storage here?