[GytOwl82]

I have an odd problem. I cannot manage to mount an NTFS partition.

Here's what I get with mount:

jani@neophiant:~$ mount /dev/hdd1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd1,
or too many mounted file systems

In fstab:

/dev/hdd1 /mount/Gangrea ntfs ro,user 0 0

I have tried and tried, but honestly, last time I got an NTFS partition working like it should. I just installed sarge, and decided Windows will be lost forever, but I need that data that's in the NTFS partition.

Could the problem lie in the fact that the NTFS partition has 64k clusters? I haven't checked yet that does Linux NTFS support 64k cluster size, but I can't see why wouldn't it.

Any help and ideas will be appreciated! Thanks!

Edit:
Alright, after a restart, when doing startup mounting from fstab, it says along the lines of NTFS: cluster size not supported... Kinda obvious.
uname -r says that I'm running on 2.4.27-1-386. Would a kernel update fix this? Thanks for the help.

[UgoDeschamps]

can you post your reading of fdisk -l please

[GytOwl82]

Disk /dev/hdd: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 4865 39078081 7 HPFS/NTFS

[bpark]

Try mounting as a root user. From what I can remember, NTFS is difficult to mount as normal user even with the appropriate permssions.

[GytOwl82]

Same thing happened with root:

neophiant:/home/jani# mount /dev/hdd1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd1,
or too many mounted file systems

Is there any logs that mount would generate to check for errors generated by the NTFS mounter?

I think I have to research on that kernel blocksize thing that it complains about when booting to linux. Any help, as always, will be greatly appreciated!

[UgoDeschamps]

I remember starting from scratch with my NTFS partition.
I deleted the entry in /mnt
I created a new /mnt/win_main
removed all entry in fstab
and mounted the partition from terminal... after I was able, I added the command in fstab.

To make it happen, I read

man mount
man fstab

[GytOwl82]

Alright, just updating and thanking all that tried to help me with my dilemma!
So thanks, everyone!

Anyhow, I think I've actually found the source of the problem.

From http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/st...tml#ntfsdriver

"Supports all NTFS cluster sizes from 512 bytes up to 64 kB. The old driver is limited to maximum 4 kB cluster size."

And

"What NTFS driver Linux distributions include in 2.4.x kernels? This is what we know about,

# Old driver: Debian, Knoppix, Slackware. "

Haven't yet tested whether the new driver works, but I'm quite positive about it. Thanks again everyone!

Edit:
Alright. Everything works perfectly now, updated the kernel to pre-compiled kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386. NTFS partition mounts at startup, and works as it should. Yet again, thanks for the support all.