external hard drive mounting problem!

[jaipraveen]

I use a Toshiba external hardrive..Though the label name "Praveen" appears in my hard drive.When I open it by double-clicking, i get a message "Cannot mount the volume"What may be the problem?

[devils casper]

which distro are you using? did you mount partitions of External Harddisk?
post the output of fdisk -l command here.





Casper

[jaipraveen]

The output for fdisk -l is....

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5100 40960048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda2 5101 7044 15615180 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 7045 7305 2096482+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 7306 9729 19466968+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda5 7045 7222 1429753+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 8195 MB, 8195281920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 996 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 978 7855753+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 979 995 136552+ a0 IBM Thinkpad hibernation

[devils casper]

Fedora Core doesn't support NTFS out of box. install kmod-ntfs for NTFS read access, create mount_point and mount External disk.

su -
yum -y install kmod-ntfs

mkdir /media/ext_disk
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/ext_disk
ls /media/ext_disk

for NTFS read/write access, check this link.





Casper

[jaipraveen]

I mounted it myself... I thought its unnecessary to mount external hard drives... But its the converse and now i am able to access my files... I recognised that the external hard drive is supports ntfs file system...
->i have previousl installed some modules for handling ntfs files like ntfs-3g..
-->But i got a error after mounting
WARNING: Old FUSE kernel module detected. This means, some driver features
are not available (swap file on NTFS, boot from NTFS by LILO),
and unmount is not safe unless you make sure the ntfs-3g process
naturally terminates after calling 'umount'. The safe FUSE kernel
driver is included in the official Linux kernels since version
2.6.20-rc1, or in the FUSE 2.6 software package. Please see the
next page for more help: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#fuse26


--->Please help me out... I will post what happened tomoro.. Sweet dreams

[devils casper]

update ntfs-3g package.

yum -y update ntfs-3g

did you set 'SELINUX=permissive' in /etc/selinux/config file?



Sweet Dreams !
Casper

[jaipraveen]

My ntfs -3g is up-to-date.The thing is I am not able to unmount the ext.hard drive even after shutdown.As a consequence of which,the next time when i booted up my pc,the ext. hard drive failed to mount showing the following error!

$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0). Please report to ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sf.net!
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS logfile is unclean. Choose one action:
Boot Windows and shutdown it cleanly, or if you have a removable
device then click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows
taskbar notification area before disconnecting it.
Or
Run 'ntfsfix' on Linux unless you have Vista, then mount NTFS with
the 'force' option read-write, or with the 'ro' option read-only.
Or
Mount the NTFS volume with the 'ro' option in read-only mode.

[devils casper]

thats weird. did you edit /etc/selinux/config file? which kernel version are you using? post the output of 'uname -a' here.






Casper

[jaipraveen]

I have set my SE Linux - permissive option as you have told earlier.I still face the same problem.
Here is the o/p for uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:54:20 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux