Cannot mount external ntfs drive

[Koushik Kumar Nundy]

I am unable to access a friend's WD My passport 2 TB drive on my
openSUSE 12.3 laptop.

On trying to mount the drive using Dolphin, the following error shows up

> An error occurred while accessing 'Home', the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

It shows up on fdisk -l as /dev/sdb, with the following entry

http://susepaste.org/49605471


However trying to mount the drive using
> sudo mount /dev/sdb1
OR
> sudo mount -f /dev/sdb1

gives an error that there is no entry in /etc/fstab
> mount: can't find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab

I am not sure what the proper fstab entry would be for the required
file. I have my current fstab file here:

http://susepaste.org/7305778


Using gparted (the program, not the distro) to view the HDD shows it
as a contiguous 1.8 TB partition, but fails to mount or otherwise
access it's contents.

I am not sure how to gain access. Any help is appreciated.

FWIW, plugging the drive into a Win7 system says I need to format the drive.

[Rahul Ghose]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Koushik Kumar Nundy <kkn...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am unable to access a friend's WD My passport 2 TB drive on my
openSUSE 12.3 laptop.

On trying to mount the drive using Dolphin, the following error shows up

> An error occurred while accessing 'Home', the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

It shows up on fdisk -l as /dev/sdb, with the following entry

http://susepaste.org/49605471


However trying to mount the drive using
> sudo mount /dev/sdb1
OR
> sudo mount -f /dev/sdb1

gives an error that there is no entry in /etc/fstab
> mount: can't find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab

It should there is no entry there!
 

I am not sure what the proper fstab entry would be for the required
file. I have my current fstab file here:

http://susepaste.org/7305778


Using gparted (the program, not the distro) to view the HDD shows it
as a contiguous 1.8 TB partition, but fails to mount or otherwise
access it's contents.

I am not sure how to gain access. Any help is appreciated.

FWIW, plugging the drive into a Win7 system says I need to format the drive.

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Try this:

as root:

# mkdir drive

# mount /dev/sdb1 drive

check if the filesystem has indeed been mounted by cd-ing and ls-ing the contents of the created folder "drive".



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Rahul Ghose

http://www.rahul-ghose.in

[Koushik Kumar Nundy]

On 21 August 2013 13:53, Rahul Ghose <hansum...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Koushik Kumar Nundy <kkn...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>

>>
>> gives an error that there is no entry in /etc/fstab
>> > mount: can't find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab
>
>
> It should there is no entry there!
>

I am aware of that. I wanted to know what the missing entry should look like.

>>
>>
>> I am not sure what the proper fstab entry would be for the required
>> file. I have my current fstab file here:
>>
>> http://susepaste.org/7305778
>>
>>
>> Using gparted (the program, not the distro) to view the HDD shows it
>> as a contiguous 1.8 TB partition, but fails to mount or otherwise
>> access it's contents.
>>
>> I am not sure how to gain access. Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> FWIW, plugging the drive into a Win7 system says I need to format the
>> drive.
>>
>> --
>

> Try this:
>
> as root:
>
> # mkdir drive
> # mount /dev/sdb1 drive
>

I had tried mounting to a designated folder, both with and without su,
both to no avail.

> check if the filesystem has indeed been mounted by cd-ing and ls-ing the
> contents of the created folder "drive".
>

Nothing appeared in the folder under question when I tried earlier.


I may have done something I did not document at some point, but the
drive seems to work fine now, mounting automatically on both my
systems.

Thanks for your help.