Invalid mount option

[zeneknath]

hello friends

i just installed Debian 5.0.5 ! and i used guided partition (option one) while installing BUT immediately i cannot access my Windows drives C & D. if i click it , it says "Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume C " how to fix it?
Thanks in advance !

[nujinini]

Hello zeneknath!

Please post the output of the following:

fdisk -l (l is small L)
df -h

[tornow]

you need the package
ntfs-3g

[zeneknath]

hello nujinini !

output for
fdisk -l
was this
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320071851520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xff45ff45

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6533 52476291 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6534 29608 185349937+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 29609 38583 72091687+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 38584 38913 2650725 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 38584 38913 2650693+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris


and for
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 68G 3.1G 62G 5% /
tmpfs 1.7G 0 1.7G 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 824K 9.2M 9% /dev
tmpfs 1.7G 0 1.7G 0% /dev/shm

i am ?...

[nujinini]

Your windows partition seems to be ok.

/dev/sda1 * 1 6533 52476291 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6534 29608 185349937+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

All we have to do I think is to mount them and make your Debian read the partitions. I encountered the same problem several months back and devils casper helped me solve it.

Check this please.

Feel free to post the outputs just in case you encounter problems.

Best of luck!

[zeneknath]

hello friend..
when i typed ...(as root....)
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount point got vanished....
and then...
How ? to change/save (/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0 0 0) in the file etc/fstab file using command's
coz it's not saving directly with Graphical mode ....
and...
mkdir /media/sda1
it created the sda1 but after
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 -o defaults,umask=0
it gave..error
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'

[nujinini]

Hi!

Its ok. I think were getting closer. Every failure brings us closer to a solution

You were able to successfully do mkdir /media/sda1.

So now please execute this to get ntfs-3g

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

Then afterwards you can now execute:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 -o defaults,umask=0

Then if all goes well, we can now save the file in your /etc/fstab to make permanent. I use nano editor

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Add the following line at the bottom

/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0 0 0

Save the file.

[zeneknath]

Thank you !
din't had any problems.....
all windows drivers got mounted....
i can open it from COMPUTER.
but all the drives are also seen on the Desktop(can it made to visible in the computer folder only?)
no issues but just asking.....

Thank's

[nujinini]

Congratulations!

Glad to be of help!

...but all the drives are also seen on the Desktop(can it made to visible in the computer folder only?)

Regarding the above, I'm not sure how to do it. I suggest you make another thread for it and we will hope that somebody who knows can give his idea.

[zaonline]

but all the drives are also seen on the Desktop(can it made to visible in the computer folder only?)
no issues but just asking.....

Thank's

If you don't want to see the mounted volumes/drives on your Desktop, I asume you are using gnome. Start a shell and type:

gconf-editor

expand "apps" scroll down to nautilus and expand it and select "desktop" and then at the right hand, uncheck "volumes_visible" and you are done.