Problem mounting external HD

[riccardo_linux]

Hello,

when I try to mount an external hd, the error in attach appears. I have Wheezy with kernel 3.0 and Gnome.

What I have to do?


Thank you!!

Schermata.jpg

[yancek]

What I have to do?

Post more information. The image you posted would indicate you are trying to mount an ntfs partition. Is this a windows data partition? Do you have a windows system installed somewhere? Did you try to mount as root? I don't know if Debian has ntfs-3g by default, you might investigate that. It would be useful for someone to help you if you posted exactly how you tried to mount, clicking on some icon, command from terminal??

[riccardo_linux]

Post more information. The image you posted would indicate you are trying to mount an ntfs partition. Is this a windows data partition? Do you have a windows system installed somewhere? Did you try to mount as root? I don't know if Debian has ntfs-3g by default, you might investigate that. It would be useful for someone to help you if you posted exactly how you tried to mount, clicking on some icon, command from terminal??

Here some info:

- it is not a windows partition
- no windows system installed
- no root mounting, but after the login, I connect the usb cable

- what does ntfs-3g do?
- auto mount after the usb connection


Riccardo

[yancek]

The error message in the image you posted states "unprivileged user cannot mount ntfs block devices..."

ntfs is a windows only filesystem. You cannot mount as user, you need to be root. ntfs-3g is software for read/write of ntfs partitions from Linux.

What do you have on the external drive?
What happens if you plug in the drive in before booting?
Is Debian the only operating system you have?
How many hard drives do you have?
Can you boot Debian? If so, open a terminal and get drive/partition information to post by running this command as root: fdisk -l(lower case Letter L in the command).
Do you have auto set in your /etc/fstab file for whichever partition you are trying to mount?

[riccardo_linux]

The error message in the image you posted states "unprivileged user cannot mount ntfs block devices..."

ntfs is a windows only filesystem. You cannot mount as user, you need to be root. ntfs-3g is software for read/write of ntfs partitions from Linux.

What do you have on the external drive?
What happens if you plug in the drive in before booting?
Is Debian the only operating system you have?
How many hard drives do you have?
Can you boot Debian? If so, open a terminal and get drive/partition information to post by running this command as root: fdisk -l(lower case Letter L in the command).
Do you have auto set in your /etc/fstab file for whichever partition you are trying to mount?

I solve the problem!!

There was an entry device on /etc/fstab, I removed it and now I can mount the device!!

[sergei971]

Hi,

I am just wondering if anyone is experiencing same issue as me. When I plug external HDD through USB port it works fine, but when I right click to select safely remove this device for the past two times I have done this has caused my computer to freeze. Anyone able to shed some light on this issue?

Regards,
Sergei

[devils casper]

Instead of selecting 'Safely Remove' in GUI, try umount command in Terminal and post error message here, if any.

umount /dev/<device_name>