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Cannot Mount Volume(already mounted?)

Asked by almostder

I am using ubuntu 9.04 on a usb flashdrive.
It hav not installed yet as I need to free up space on my hardisk first.

It was functioning well for sometime but now refuses to mount two of my ntfs partitions.
It does still mount one partition though(I have got 3)

I get following error :
Cannot Mount Volume
Unable to mount volume

dev/sda5 is already mounted to dev/sda/media

I have already installed storage device manager but dont know how to set it up
thanx

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almostder (kartik91827) said : 		#1

fdisk
*Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xefa1efa1

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2 5099 40949685 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda2 5100 10198 40957717+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 10199 18101 63480847+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 18102 19456 10884037+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 2 5099 40949653+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 2005 MB, 2005925888 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7652 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0008ee8e

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 16 7652 1954880 e W95 FAT16 (LBA)

Disk /dev/sdc: 2004 MB, 2004877312 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00035f67

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 244 1957856+ b W95 FAT32
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(242, 254, 63) logical=(243, 190, 11)
Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512)

Disk /dev/sdd: 1015 MB, 1015021568 bytes
32 heads, 61 sectors/track, 253 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1952 * 2048 = 3997696 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b

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

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 ? 398636 983425 2283019262 72 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(398635, 6, 23)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(983424, 30, 61)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdd2 ? 86419 1078237 3872056480 65 Novell Netware 386
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(86418, 26, 1)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(1078236, 17, 53)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdd3 ? 957932 1949749 3872056384 79 Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(957931, 2, 32)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(1949748, 25, 36)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdd4 ? 1478321 1478349 110998 d Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(1478320, 8, 25)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(1478348, 22, 13)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order*

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Can you please provide the output of:

mount

Thanks

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almostder (kartik91827) said : 		#3

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almostder (kartik91827) said : 		#4

Pls refer the following screens
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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Then try:

nautilus /media/disk &

This is an NTFS partition so if you want write access you will need to remount it:

sudo umount /media/disk; sudo mount /dev/sda5 /media/disk -t ntfs-3g -o uid=1000

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almostder (kartik91827) said : 		#6

I have to do this in terminal ?
in place of disk shall I put the different partition names aka dev/sda5 ?

Thanx for reply

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almostder (kartik91827) said : 		#7

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo umount /media/disk; sudo mount /dev/sda5 /media/disk -t ntfs-3g -o uid=1000
umount: /dev/sda4: not mounted
umount: /media/disk: not found
umount: /dev/sda5: not mounted
umount: /media/disk: not found
umount: /dev/sda2: not mounted
umount: /media/disk: not found
umount: /dev/sda4: not mounted
umount: /media/disk: not found
[1]+ Done nautilus /media/disk
fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/disk: No such file or directory

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

The commands are all in the terminal, yes

and no

/media/disk is the mount point. if you read the command it mentions /dev/sda5.

sudo umount /media/disk; sudo mkdir /media/disk; sudo mount /dev/sda5 /media/disk -t ntfs-3g -o uid=1000

will unmount it and mount it writable using ntfs-3g. It is already mounted but will most likely be read only. You havent given me the output of the command I gave so I can only guess.

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almostder (kartik91827) said : 		#9

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.