Mounting drive problem

[buffalo101]

Hello guys,

I'm having a hard time with mounting a disk.

fdisk -l:

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20673 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x69205244

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 2 1761 13305600 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb2 * 1762 20673 142974720 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb5 2 1761 13305568+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009c1e3

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3916 31455238+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3917 5222 10490445 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 5223 77825 583183597+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 5223 5745 4200966 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda6 5746 77825 578982568+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 4040 MB, 4040748544 bytes
125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7750 * 512 = 3968000 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xde8e7bb0

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 ? 389745 389810 253319 e4 SpeedStor
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(190, 120, 0) logical=(389744, 41, 51)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(544, 125, 44) logical=(389809, 88, 24)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 ? 129879 386391 993984023 98 Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1010, 16, 43) logical=(129878, 122, 10)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(205, 205, 22) logical=(386390, 122, 55)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb3 ? 218920 466650 959953209 7d Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(252, 139, 46) logical=(218919, 56, 54)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(367, 195, 2) logical=(466649, 39, 25)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb4 ? 483 491 32768 0 Empty
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(482, 0, 53)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(490, 57, 54)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

fstab:

cat fstab
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda1 /dev/sda1 ntfs-3g umask=000 1 0
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

Errors:

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a block device, and stat fails?

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sda1': Input/output error

ntfs-3g 2009.4.4 integrated FUSE 27 - Third Generation NTFS Driver

Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Yura Pakhuchiy
Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Szabolcs Szakacsits
Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Jean-Pierre Andre
Copyright (C) 2009 Erik Larsson

Usage: ntfs-3g [-o option[,...]] <device|image_file> <mount_point>

Options: ro (read-only mount), remove_hiberfile, uid=, gid=,
umask=, fmask=, dmask=, streams_interface=.
Please see the details in the manual (type: man ntfs-3g).

Example: ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

Ntfs-3g news, support and information:

Any help is appreciated.

[yancek]

I don't know if this will solve your problem but, you need to change your fstab entry for sda1. You have:

/dev/sda1 /dev/sda1 ntfs-3g umask=000 1 0

The second "/dev/sda1" should be your mount point, like /mnt/sda1. You need to create the sda1 directory in the /mnt directory. You can name it something else, doesn't matter.

/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs-3g umask=000 1 0

above should work.

[buffalo101]

I tried all of that before firing up KDE and it worked (mkdir, mount). I'll edit fstab and see if it auto-mounts ok. Thank you!