Mounting ntfs formatted usb external hdd in Tumbleweed

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Hi,

I have a 500 Gb usb external hdd formated in ntfs. Before changing to Tumbleweed, the hdd was recognized and mounted correctly when it was plugged. Now, KDE applet informs “Could not mount the following device”. Looking at the error logs I was able to find out that it was being mounted as fat, not ntfs. I can still mounted manually through the command line, but I would like to make the kde applet way working again.

Any ideas?

H!

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Are you using the newly updated KDE version in Tumbleweed?

Either way, I suggest you file a bug at bugzilla.novell.com so that people can work to resolve this.

thanks,

greg k-h

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You might need to run a check disk on this drive. Plug into a Windows machine and check the disk. You might need to reboot to get it to happen. QTParted has a check disk function as well. If the disk shows up in YaST / System / Partitioner, but it does not mount, it just needs to have check disk or other such utility ran on it.

Thank You,

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Isn’t this the same as all those in the other subforums?

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Hi,

The drive works fine in Windows and in “standard” openSUSE 11.4. I am running Linux 2.6.38.4-23-default i686 and KDE: 4.6.2 (4.6.2) “release 1”.

I have filed a bug report (Bug 691280)

Hernan

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Here is the link
Bug 691280 - USB hard disk formatted as NTFS is being mounted as FAT by KDE (and of course fails) in Tumbleweed
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691280
Compare also the other Report Bug 691332 against openSUSE 11.4 .

Regards
Martin
aka pistazienfresser

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There is a workaround that will restore the old behaviour of the Device Notifier so you don’t have to mount it from the CLI. I don’t see mention of it in this thread, so I’ll paste the link and the workaround.
Link: Automount of external NTFS USB drive fails when using the Device Notifier
Workaround –> Open the file /etc/filesystems and add an entry for “ntfs” so the file looks similar to this (see last entry):

vfat
hfs
minix
reiserfs
ntfs
*

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Well MATE YOU ARE A STAR!!!

I first thought my drive was dead, i tried it in windows and it worked so I looked for a bug report and found one, I added my comments to the report and then I found this workaround!!!
You help me so much!!!

THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH!!!

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Wow, that’s enthusiasm. I’m just the messenger – and you’re very welcome.

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Thanks for sharing.

When I did my monthly backup, all had to done with root privileges.

This rectified the dilemma.

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Excellent ! thanks

modify /etc/filesystems works perfectly