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Fujitsu external hardrive wont mount on Linux Mint Gloria
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I've just recently purchased a new external hardrive to file away about 100GB of video and mp3 files, but I can't get it to mount on my Linux OS.

Can anyone help me?
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How are you trying to mount it? And what file system is installed on it? A lot of these large external drives these days are configured with NTFS to work with Windows, or else they are formatted with FAT32 file systems. NTFS drives will not automount on Linux - you will need to mount it manually.
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Hi there! (sorry it's taken so long to reply, everything has been breaking on me D: )

I've been trying to mount it using the terminal. I've found numerous help topics on the subject but nothing seems to work. It's an NTFS drive, and I have been trying to mount it manually.

Anything you could suggest to help me would be awesome.

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Depending upon the distribution+version of Linux you are running, you might need to install the 3g-ntfs file system support. Look for /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g or /usr/bin/ntfs-3g - on my system /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g is a link to /usr/bin/ntfs-3g.
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