can't mount ntfs drive

[dirk_diggler]

I just installed Debian on a system with Ubuntu/XP dual boot (to try this flavor of Linux, in hopes of creating a *relatively* stable file server from my old system). But I can't seem to mount the NTFS drive. I have no problems with Ubuntu reading/accessing this drive... I can easily mount it.

The error message I get when I *right-click->mount volume is:

mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdd1 is mounted on /media/hdd1

mount failed

Here is my fdisk -l output:

Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1828 14683378+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4719 9964 42138495 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 1829 4718 23213925 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 4719 4849 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 4850 6825 15872188+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 6826 9964 25213986 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/hdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 9118 73240303+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 9119 14946 46813410 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 9119 12158 24418768+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb6 12159 14946 22394578+ b W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/hdd: 300.0 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 36481 293033601 7 HPFS/NTFS

Here is my fstab output:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0 0 0

--> As you can see, I've already tried to add the ntfs drive (hdd1) but I am failing misserably. Please help?!

[Jonathan183]

What does

mount

report? I don't think ntfs-3g is installed by default in Debian.

[devils casper]

ntfs-3g is not pre-installed in Debian.
You have to install it manually. Post the output of df -h command too.

df -h

[dirk_diggler]

What does

mount

report? I don't think ntfs-3g is installed by default in Debian.

mount output is as follows:

/dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda7 on /home type ext3 (rw)

[dirk_diggler]

ntfs-3g is not pre-installed in Debian.
You have to install it manually. Post the output of df -h command too.

df -h

df -h output is below:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 15G 2.1G 13G 15% /
tmpfs 507M 0 507M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 92K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 507M 0 507M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda7 24G 184M 23G 1% /home

[iwanabeguru]

try to mount it with the linux ntfs driver.
and as Casper said ntfs-3g wasn't preinstalled in debian

[devils casper]

Execute this, as suggested by iwanabeguru :

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd1 /mnt/windows -o defaults,umask=0 
ls /mnt/windows

If it works, replace ntfs-3g with ntfs in /etc/fstab file. Install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS write access.

[dirk_diggler]

Execute this, as suggested by iwanabeguru :

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd1 /mnt/windows -o defaults,umask=0 
ls /mnt/windows

If it works, replace ntfs-3g with ntfs in /etc/fstab file. Install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS write access.

I get this error:

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd1 /mnt/windows -o defaults,umask=0
mount: mount point /mnt/windows does not exist

ls /mnt/windowsmount -t ntfs /dev/hdd1 /mnt/windows -o defaults,umask=0
ls: /mnt/windowsmount: No such file or directory
ls: ntfs: No such file or directory
ls: /mnt/windows: No such file or directory
ls: defaults,umask=0: No such file or directory
brw-rw---- 1 root 22, 65 2008-05-30 00:13 /dev/hdd1

I may be doing something wrong. I executed through root (su) with copy-paste of your suggested commands.

[Jonathan183]

From your error messages it looks as though you don't have a /mnt/windows folder to mount the partition to ... run

mkdir /mnt/windows

first to create the folder (you need root access for doing this).

[devils casper]

Gain root privileges using su - or install sudo.

su -
mkdir /mnt/windows