On 23-Jan-2012 MJ Ray wrote:
(Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@wlandres.net [...]
When I plug this in (Debian Lenny) I get a pop-up which says:
Cannot mount volume Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume 'My Passport'
dmesg | tail -35 gives:
Try /var/log/messages and /var/log/daemon to see if it traps what command it is trying to run.
I suspect it's udev or hal kicking in and trying to mount it as vfat instead of ntfs. I think they mount things under /media so that may explain the .hal-* file.
If so, you need to find the rule and add a more specific one for that disk (probably its UUID or label or something) to mount it as ntfs instead.
Hope that points you in roughly the right direction,
MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op.
Well, maybe ... ! The /var/log/messages looks the same as the output of dmesg which I posted previously.
/var/log/daemon.log may be more informative, but I don't know how to interpret it:
Jan 23 18:37:09 deb2 NetworkManager: <debug>\ [1327343829.337959] nm_hal_device_added():\ New device added (hal udi is \ '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_WD_\ My_Passport_0740_575839314138315 934373632_0_0').
Furthermore: When I used mount -o rw to force mounting rw:
mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/sdc1 /mnt
and then execute 'mount' to see what's there, I see:
/dev/sdc1 on /mnt type ntfs (rw)
so it is (allegedly) mounted rw, and with FS type NTFS, but I cannot execute 'mkdir /mnt/Test' since I get
mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/Test': Operation not permitted
Thanks, Ted.
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