mounting local file systems ... Failed

[NoOp]

On 07/24/2009 10:09 AM, Ray Parrish wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I got the message in the subject suddenly on  my last tow boots. The 
> only partitions being mounted now are my Windows partition, and my 
> Programs {for windows} partition. The other ntfs partitions are not 
> being mounted and when I try to mount them by using Nautilus I get the 
> following dialog of error messages -
> 
> <http://www.rayslinks/Images/CannotMountVolume.png>

I think you mean:
<http://www.rayslinks.com/Images/CannotMountVolume.png>

> 
> Here is what I have in fstab
> 
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/sda6
> UUID=1d21c59f-6a91-4923-8a91-d8ef30dd8096 /               ext3    
> relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
> # /dev/sda7
> UUID=AA84ABA1463F85C9 /media/Downloads ntfs 
> rw,user,nodev,noatime,blksize=4096 0 0
> # /dev/sda5
> UUID=01FDB079EDF37490 /media/Music ntfs 
> rw,user,nodev,noatime,blksize=4096 0 0
> # /dev/sda8
> UUID=4BC92DF718C72864 /media/Personal ntfs 
> rw,user,nodev,noatime,blksize=4096 0 0
> # /dev/sda9
> UUID=A0A8FF96A8FF6964 /media/Programs ntfs 
> ro,nodev,noexec,noatime,blksize=4096 0 0
> # /dev/sda1
> UUID=AE3C279C3C275E99 /media/disk ntfs 
> ro,nodev,noexec,noatime,blksize=4096 0 0
> /mnt/1024Mb.swap none swap sw 0 0
> 
> Note that the two partitions that do get mounted are set to ro, while 
> the ones not mounting are set to rw. That is the only difference I see.
> 
> Later, Ray Parrish
> 

Recommend ntsf-3g - example:
UUID=<snips> /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
http://ntfs-3g.org/manual.html

Interesting choices you have:
http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount
nodev
    Do not interpret character or block special devices on the file system.
noexec
    Do not allow direct execution of any binaries on the mounted file
system. (Until recently it was possible to run binaries anyway using a
command like /lib/ld*.so /mnt/binary. This trick fails since Linux
2.4.25 / 2.6.0.)
noatime
    Do not update inode access times on this file system (e.g, for
faster access on the news spool to speed up news servers).

I guess nodev and noexec are OK, but noatime seems a little odd. And of
course you read the warning regarding blksize. Also have a look at:
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html
  http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#useroption
    http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#useroption3

I'd update your ntfs-3g package:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/ntfs-3g
and also have a look at the ntfs-3g the gui:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/ntfs-config
And this might be of help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab