[SOLVED] Cannot Mount Partition in Fresh Install

[nujinini]

Hello Everybody,

I made a fresh reinstall of my Debian and was trying to mount the storage bin /dev/sda5 which I was able to do before in my previous thread.

su -
mkdir /media/sda5
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5  /media/sda5 -o defaults,umask=0

Now I tried the same commands but am getting a different result. Can somebody be so kind to help me again with this please? Thank you in advance.

jun@junix:~$ cd /media/sda5
jun@junix:/media/sda5$ mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5  /media/sda5 -o defaults,umask=0
mount: only root can do that
jun@junix:/media/sda5$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5  /media/sda5 -o defaults,umask=0
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0)
Failed to mount '/dev/sda5': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action:

Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by
          clicking on the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows
          taskbar then shutdown Windows cleanly.

Choice 2: If you don't have Windows then you can use the 'force' option for
          your own responsibility. For example type on the command line:

            mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 /media/sda5 -o force

    Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file:

            /dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ntfs-3g force 0 0
jun@junix:/media/sda5$

jun@junix:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc5e3f820

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1936    15550888+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2   *        1937       30401   228645112+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            1937       21975   160963236    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6           21976       22826     6835626   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7           22827       30401    60846156   83  Linux
jun@junix:~$

[reed9]

I assume you're dual booting?

Boot windows up and run the Check Disk utility, make sure it's shutting down properly.

Or in Debian install ntfsprogs if you haven't already

sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

then try

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda5

[devils casper]

Try force option once. Sometime NTFS partitions doesn't mount correctly because of unclean shutdown in Windows OS. force option mount partitions correct but one should not use it regularly. Just use it once. Unmount NTFS partition and mount it again without force option.

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5  /media/sda5 -o defaults,force,umask=0

[nujinini]

Hi Everyone,

Thank you!

I was able to make it mount using the old commands after I run CHKDSK in my windows partition.