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lost ability to mount ntfs partition

Asked by rrranch

I am now suddenly unable to mount a ntfs partition. This is on a seperate drive from my Ubuntu install. I have two ntfs partitions on sda. the first is a win7 partition the second is my data partition set as ntfs. In terminal when trying to mount I get.
 fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/data: No such file or directory.
The win7 partition mounts normaly from Ubuntu. Help restoring access would be great.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

sudo mkdir /media/data

Should do it

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rrranch (rrranch) said : 		#2

rrranch wrote:
> New question #104391 on util-linux in ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+question/104391
>
> I am now suddenly unable to mount a ntfs partition. This is on a seperate drive from my Ubuntu install. I have two ntfs partitions on sda. the first is a win7 partition the second is my data partition set as ntfs. In terminal when trying to mount I get.
> fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/data: No such file or directory.
> The win7 partition mounts normaly from Ubuntu. Help restoring access would be great.
>
>
>
 Thanks, that did the job.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Please mark as solved

The mountpoint MUST exist to mount to it. It is not mounts job to create the mount point if it does not exist

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rrranch (rrranch) said : 		#4

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.