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Unable to mount location
Unable to mount location
Post by industrial » Thu Feb 27, 2014 7:09 am
Re: Unable to mount location
Post by jahid » Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:14 am
Re: Unable to mount location
Post by industrial » Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:27 am
Re: Unable to mount location
Post by jahid » Thu Feb 27, 2014 11:01 am
Re: Unable to mount location
Post by industrial » Thu Feb 27, 2014 11:05 am
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000614b7
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 83888127 41943040 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 83888128 100665343 8388608 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 100665344 976773119 438053888 83 Linux
Re: Unable to mount location
Post by jahid » Thu Feb 27, 2014 11:33 am
Re: Unable to mount location
Post by industrial » Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:42 pm
I can access through /home in «File System» or on the desktop.
The output of /etc/fstab is:
# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=60127689-43db-48c5-9aed-762f0aa4fa3e / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=b25b4759-3feb-4745-8f37-ff548f5afadd swap swap sw 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=e9ccd751-fb3c-46f4-a4c8-e7ca7eb76069 /home ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
Re: Unable to mount location
Post by jahid » Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:06 pm
if you can access your home through file system then it’s not a major problem.you can ignore this problem & continue using OS without worrying too much.
or
try this if it fixes your problem:
edit the last line of the fstab file to:
UUID=e9ccd751-fb3c-46f4-a4c8-e7ca7eb76069 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
you need to open the fstab file with superuser privillage to make any changes in it.
this code can help you:
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab
if this doesn’t fix your problem then try deleting these lines:
# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
from your fstab file.
and of course, restart to see the result.
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[SOLVED] «Unable to mount location — can’t mount file»
[SOLVED] «Unable to mount location — can’t mount file»
Post by wrahim » Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:17 am
I have tried to fix this on my own by looking for information online, but I would like to solve this without losing all my data from my 1 TB external harddrive.
Problem: upon connecting external hdd, you can hear the usb device connect sound. However trying to get inside it results in » Unable to mount location — can’t mount file» error.
I have not done much, but when in terminal these are the results of the following commands:
Does this have anything to do with the fact that both disks (my primary internal 120GB ssd and the external 1TB) have the same Id (/dev/sda1/ and /dev/sdb1 have the same Id)?
I have seen one solution to a very similar problem, but the person ended up using gparted to format the drive. I can NOT do this, I have too much data, that I am not willing to let go of yet. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Re: «Unable to mount location — can’t mount file»
Post by Mute Ant » Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:27 am
Re: «Unable to mount location — can’t mount file»
Post by WharfRat » Sun Jun 08, 2014 12:22 pm
You can only use mount /dev/sdb1/ if you have an fstab entry otherwise you have to specify the mount point e.g.,
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/external
Re: «Unable to mount location — can’t mount file»
Post by wrahim » Sun Jun 08, 2014 1:02 pm
WharfRat wrote: wrahim,
You can only use mount /dev/sdb1/ if you have an fstab entry otherwise you have to specify the mount point e.g.,
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/external
Note: I did have to manually create /external inside /media.
EDIT: oh man I really don’t like the «NTFS signature is missing.» .
Re: «Unable to mount location — can’t mount file»
Post by Mute Ant » Sun Jun 08, 2014 1:10 pm
Re: «Unable to mount location — can’t mount file»
Post by altair4 » Sun Jun 08, 2014 1:16 pm
Re: «Unable to mount location — can’t mount file»
Post by wrahim » Sun Jun 08, 2014 1:32 pm
Alright, I am running a recovery tool on the external drive in windows. I’ll update this post soon after. Thanks everyone for your help so far.
This was a longer process than I originally thought it would be. The problem was that my external drives boot sector was destroyed (somehow in the process of installing mint. which didn’t happen any other time). After attempting to fix the disk using various partition/data recovery tools, I decided it is best to just recover the files I need and reformat the disk. The tool I used to recover my lost and unreachable data was TestDisk; I highly recommend this to anyone with similar problems. It’s free, open source, and it works!
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Unable to mount location
Unable to mount location
Post by esmith » Thu Oct 20, 2016 4:25 pm
Complete newbie here. I am attempting to save files from my mom’s Samsung DP500A2D-K01UB PC.
Original OS: Win 8.0, upgraded since to Win 8.1
Automatic updates put it into an infinite reboot loop «Diagnosing Your PC» and «Attempting to Repair»
We don’t want to try a reset because she has no backup (What can I say? She’s 81.)
I tried using Easus Backup to create an emergency disk. Tried both Windows PE and Linux. No success in getting the PC to boot from the DVD.
I downloaded linuxmint-18-cinnamon-64bit.iso, burned it to a DVD, and, yay! It booted up.
BUT.
When I try to click on the hard drive I get the following error message:
Error mounting /dev/sda4 at media/ming/4E942A78942A62A7: Command-line ‘mount -t “ntfs” -0 “uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=999,gid=999” “/dev/sda4” “/media/mint/4E942A78942A62A7” exited with non-zero exit status 14: Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount ‘/dev/sda4”:Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the ‘ro’ mount option.
I ran «info mount» in a terminal window and tried to mount using the ‘ro’ mount option. But, clearly, I do not fully understand the syntax. None of my attempts have been successful.
I searched this forum and found instructions to disable «Fast Startup» which I did. Shutdown. Re-started. Still getting the same error.
Any advice will be much appreciated—the simpler and most specific you can make it the better. THANK YOU!
Re: Unable to mount location
Post by austin.texas » Thu Oct 20, 2016 4:34 pm
Re: Unable to mount location
Post by esmith » Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:28 pm
I did what you suggested (cut & paste your code to avoid any typos), and I got the following error message after entering the second command (which was entered as sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda4 /mnt/win):
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Failed to mount ‘/dev/sda4’: Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown
Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume
read-only with the ‘ro’ mount option.
Re: Unable to mount location
Post by WharfRat » Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:42 pm
If the intent here is just an attempt to copy files to another device then try the read only option
Re: Unable to mount location
Post by esmith » Sun Oct 23, 2016 11:30 am
I tried your suggestions. The first command appeared to execute successfully in the terminal window. But double-clicking the drive in Computer window brought up a dialog box: «Unable to mount location. Can’t mount file.»
The second command displayed «mount failed: device or resource busy» in the terminal and the same dialog box as above when double-clicking in Computer window.
I then rebooted and made the following attempts:
sudo mkdir /mnt/winsudo mkdir /mnt/win (per ausin.texas earlier in the thread)
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda4 /mnt/win
Which resulted in:
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Failed to mount ‘/dev/sda4’: Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown
Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume
read-only with the ‘ro’ mount option.
sudo umount /dev/sda4
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o debug,ro /dev/sda4 /mnt/win (your code modified to use the same directory suggested by austin.texas)
Version 2015.3.14AR.1 integrated FUSE 28
Mounted /dev/sda4 (Read-Only, label «», NTFS 3.1)
Cmdline options: ro,debug
Mount options: ro,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/sda4,blkdev,blksize=4096
Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 7
unique: 1, opcode: INIT (26), nodeid: 0, insize: 56
INIT: 7.23
flags=0x0003f7fb
max_readahead=0x00020000
INIT: 7.18
flags=0x00000841
max_readahead=0x00020000
max_write=0x00020000
unique: 1, error: 0 (Success), outsize: 40
unique: 2, opcode: ACCESS (34), nodeid: 1, insize: 48
ACCESS / 04
unique: 2, error: 0 (Success), outsize: 16
unique: 3, opcode: LOOKUP (1), nodeid: 1, insize: 47
LOOKUP /.Trash
unique: 3, error: -2 (No such file or directory), outsize: 16
unique: 4, opcode: LOOKUP (1), nodeid: 1, insize: 51
LOOKUP /.Trash-999
unique: 4, error: -2 (No such file or directory), outsize: 16
Does any of that help to understand what’s happening? Thank you for your help.