Hello, I have the same problems. I have the partition mounted at boot, it seems as though it works, however, there are no files! I tried to later mount the partition to a different location and it does not remedy the problem. Here is a session that may provide clues (note: this is after changing the mount point from /dos to /media/dos in the fstab file and remounting using “sudo mount -a”):
jb@niks:~$ uname -a
Linux niks 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 21:57:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
jb@niks:~$ls /media/dos/
ls: reading directory /media/dos/: Input/output error
jb@niks:~$ls /dos/
ls: reading directory /media/dos/: Input/output error
jb@niks:~$ cat /etc/fstab
/etc/fstab: static file system information.
– This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config –
<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=95cc0f9a-53a9-4cc4-ac90-8eb6778dd1d7 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=A0F2DB9FF2DB77CC /media/dos ntfs-3g defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=bf8d5297-7d75-404c-8235-6bd199e522bf none swap sw 0 0
jb@niks:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 128.0 GB, 128035676160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15566 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4410aece
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 516 4144738+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 517 12894 99426285 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 12895 15566 21462840 83 Linux
jb@niks:~$ mount
/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
/dev/sda2 on /dos type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/jfb/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=jfb)
/dev/sda2 on /media/dos type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
jb@niks:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 21125524 4949608 15102776 25% /
tmpfs 1536272 0 1536272 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1536272 216 1536056 1% /var/run
varlock 1536272 0 1536272 0% /var/lock
udev 1536272 2840 1533432 1% /dev
tmpfs 1536272 104 1536168 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1536272 2000 1534272 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/volatile
/dev/sda2 99426280 31598812 67827468 32% /dos
/dev/sda2 99426280 31598812 67827468 32% /media/dos
