schu777

This afternoon I found this topic, so I got home and tried it out - unfortunetly I'm not successful as the OP - below is the results of trying to mount my external hard drive (USB). Scroll down and look at the "fdisk -l"

I've created a the directory by "mkdir /mnt/exthd" and did the "chown michael:michael /mnt/exthd" and also did the "chmod 775 /mnt/exthd" too.

I'm lost with this error - also note that I rebooted the computer just to make sure...I check in the Hardware/Device and see that it is "/dev/sda1"

Thanks, Michael

[root@localhost ~]# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/exthd
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because the NTFS journal file is unclean. Choices are:
A) Shutdown Windows properly.
B) Click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows taskbar
notification area before disconnecting the device.
C) Use 'Eject' from Windows Explorer to safely remove the device.
D) If you ran chkdsk previously then boot Windows again which will
automatically initialize the journal.
E) Run 'ntfsfix' on Linux which will reset the NTFS journal.
F) Mount the volume read-only by using the 'ro' mount option.


[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 7296 58500697+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sda: 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/sda1 1 9729 78148161 7 HPFS/NTFS