Debian Hardware :: WD Passport Isn't Automounted
Feb 19, 2011
I used Squeeze live disc to verify that it supports my laptop fully. Squeeze was able to detect and load my USB WD Passport 250GB drive. I installed the OS and now the same drive isn't automounted. Every time I plugin the drive I see following message:
Unable to mount Data-istan
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
My drive is named Data-istan. I faced some other issues but found help on Wiki but couldn't find help related to this topic. I intend to put all my experience on Wiki. FYI, I have ntfs3g package already installed.
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Jun 4, 2011
I'm using Debian Testing & it does not automount any external usb devices.
Here's what I've checked:
gconf-edit->app->nautilus->preferences->media_automount: checked
gconf-editor->desktop->gnome->volume_manager->automount_drives & automount_media:checked
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Feb 5, 2010
I am running a Debian/Linux "Lenny" dual boot system and when I try to open my WD passport storage device I get: Cannot mount volume. Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume "My Passport".
This is the contents of my fstab file:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda8 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
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Aug 6, 2010
I've been experiencing that my md array md0 is not being automounted during boot for strange reason Checking up the boot log I saw: md: md0 switched to read-write mode. And after boot, checking out /proc/mdstat :
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sdb1[0] sdc1[1]
976759936 blocks [2/2] [UU]
While auto-read-only mode I cannot mount md0 So if I put
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It gets mounted perfect... But its pretty bad that it doesnt automount, since is a linux server running Debian Lenny with kernel 2.6.32-2 and on that array (not root) there are virtual machines KVM images that should also boot after system load.
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May 15, 2011
boot partition was not being automounted after booting into Fedora 13, yet I was still installing updates, including kernel updates. What has ended up happening is I have old kernels (from removed/outdated packages) that still live in my boot partition, and the new kernels (from my updates) live on the root filesystem under the /boot directory. So when I reboot, grub only sees the old kernels.To demonstrate this, here are some lists.These are the contents of my actual boot partition (grub sees these):
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vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686 (packaged not installed)
vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686 (packaged not installed)
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Jun 22, 2010
A client is having a problem with a recently installed CentOS 5.5 x86_64 Virtual Machine (under VMware ESX 3.5). The problem is reported by the user as "Nautilus windows closing after a time when looking at data from the NFS server".
The folders the user is using are in a file system that is NFS mounted from a Solaris 10 file server cluster (VCS). These are mounted using autofs. These are direct mounts as in:
$ grep ^/- /etc/auto.master
/- /etc/auto.direct
$ cat /etc/auto.direct
/opt/user-data fileserver:/export/org/data/something/something
I have reproduced the problem by logging in and opening a number of folders using Nautilus under /opt/user-data. After a while, all Nautilus folder windows that are under /opt/user-data will close and when this occurs you can see from the command line that autofs has unmounted the area from the file server.
This should not occur because Nautilus having a window open should count as the folder being in use and should stop autofs from unmounting it. I don't know if this is an autofs or Nautilus bug but I suspect it's a Nautilus bug in it not keeping some kind of access open on the folder. System information:
The system was updated at install time. /boot/grub/grub.conf has "divider=10" appended to the kernel line.VMware Tools are installed. NTP is also configured and steps the time to UTC at boot if required (maybe this is overkill). autofs and Nautilus versions are:
$ rpm -qa | egrep autofs|kernel|nautilus | sort
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5.x86_64
kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.x86_64
kernel-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64
nautilus-2.16.2-7.el5.x86_64
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Aug 25, 2010
Do you think it is possible to unlock the hard drive in Linux? I like the idea of password protecting my files, just wish I could unlock the files in Linux.
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Jan 14, 2010
Ubuntu 9.10. I have a problem - when I mount other partitions of my hdd or the system automounts usb disks these are mounted in /media directory with permissions 0700. So there are two problems there:
- When I switch user on my desktop to another that user can't read data from the usb disks
- I can't share data through network because smbd doesnot have read permissions on the created mount points
I think editing /etc/fstab is wrong way, there would be more right way to change permissions on mount point. I tried to change/add parameters umask, allow_other in gconf-editor (/system/storage/default_options, subsections vfat and ntfs-3g) but that does not show any results. Article [URL] recommends Open Places → Computer. Every volume except the generic File system one should have a Drive and Volume tab in its properties dialog where you can set mount options. But I did not find those tabs. Where should I set option to mount usb disks with permissions rwx for every user of my system?
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Jul 20, 2011
I have an Olympus D-560 ZOOM. I used to be able to download pictures from the camera with: SuSE, Fedora, early Ubuntu, etc. (I still can mount and download from my camera on these systems.) I now have Ubuntu 10.04LTS and no longer is my camera recognised. I cannot make sense of the forum threads on this topic, dating back to Ubuntu 8.0-something, that generally ramble on for endless pages without reaching a sensible conclusion (it's a bug, it's not a bug, it's because of gphoto2, it's a gvfs problem, etc.). So maybe there is a definitive answer why my camera that works on other linux will not work on Ubuntu, and maybe by now there is a real fix that does not involve me rebooting my laptop into an old linux distro.
`mount' shows the camera never gets automounted. Manually `mount /dev/sdb1 /media/camera' sometimes hangs and never completes, or sometimes answers immediately `mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device'. Output in /var/log is below.What's going on, and how can I fix it? I do not use, and I do not want to use, fstop, gphoto, gimp or any other specific software to access my camera (I have tried to download using these anyway and nothing works), I just want to mount the camera as though it were a flash drive in the same manner I have always done. Remember, this does not happen on other distros or early Ubuntu.Here is the relevant output notations in /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog.
Jul 20 14:34:17 grace kernel: [12402.825779] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 11
Jul 20 14:34:18 grace kernel: [12403.013923] usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1
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Jul 1, 2010
As you may have heard Western Digital external drives seem to play funny with Linux
I have acquired a 250GB WD Passport (WDBAAA2500ABK-00) and would like to format to use with Linux - possibly even as a persistant LiveUSB...
Has anyone de-cyphered how to format these little buggers?
Gparted and Fedora 13's Disk Utility can't touch it.
All I understand so far is that it has something to do with the Smartware they put on it to have it function on Windows/Mac.
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Feb 15, 2010
Cannot mount volume.
Unable to mount the volume 'My Passport'.
Details
$MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0). Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). see the 'dmraid' documentation for more details.
I'm trying to reinstall ubuntu because I messed up a bunch of stuff but I need to back it up on this hard drive which won't mount in any linux distro.
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Nov 10, 2010
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Jun 14, 2011
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May 22, 2010
I recently bought an Acer Extensa 5635Z and things were fine until I lent it to my godson for a weekend and got it back with the internal hard drive not functioning; he said it worked one night, and didn't the next morning; now, it's not recognised and an OS is not found during bootup. Whereas this was bad news for me in one way, on the other hand it was the perfect chance to switch to Ubuntu, something I've been wanting to do for years, and I've been really enjoying most aspects of it after using a live disk to be able to do my work over the last couple of days. Now, instead of buying another new laptop, I would like to use an external hard drive that I've just bought in the place of my broken internal hd, and have Ubuntu on it.I've read tutorials on it and they basically say that all I have to do is:
* Run the live disk - done
* Uncheck these options -
Mount removable drives when hot-plugged
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Is that it? Is there anything else I should do for this particular brand or situation (will the BIOS recognise the hard drive?) or any issues I should know about beforehand? How do I choose the HDD as primary boot? Should I insert the external HD before or after unchecking the options? Should I leave any of the 250 GB to '/dev/sda1'? There being no actual internal hard drive won't provoke trouble with the process?
P.S. My computer is 64-bit capable and I've been using a 64-bit Ubuntu disc. I've had trouble viewing things in this interim period, particularly videos, and incapable of installing codecs. Should I just get a 32-bit Ubuntu disc? Or will the problems be resolved when I have a rewritable disc on which to operate?
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Jul 29, 2011
This is a silly question maybe, but how can I turn my passport drive off after has being unmounted? I am assuming that's the right order, before removing: umount and then turning off. By the way, I am talking about Ubuntu Server, not regular Ubuntu desktop via GUI.
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Feb 14, 2010
Is it possible to remove the useless (on Linux) pre-installed partitions on this drive? Using what may be U3 technology, the drive presents as "virtual CD" and a "SES device". The only web pages I found about U3 technology refer to Flash ROM, not HDDs.
No /dev/ files are created for the drive so it cannot simply be re-partitioned. There is some info about Windows-only U3 management utilities here, here and here but they don't seem very reliable and there are no accounts of using them on HDDs. I found nothing on Western Digital's Knowledge Base.
Here's from /var/log/messages
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Feb 14 21:00:29 ps1 kernel: usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Feb 14 21:00:29 ps1 kernel: usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=070a
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Apr 5, 2011
I have just installed Ubuntu (/dev/sda7) and Debian (/dev/sda4), but since I have updated all informations on Ubuntu, then Debian did not appear anymore on the grub list. There is an wiki I have found, but I an not really sure about what to do.
Here are the boot informations:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
Boot Info Summary:
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 488861020
of the same hard drive for core.img, core.img is at this location on
/dev/sda and looks on partition #3 for (,gpt3)/grub.
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ps: on this file, it says that the /boot is installed on the MBR and /dev/sda3. I will remove the boot from MBR as I am now using /dev/sda3 instead. Sorry for my english
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WARNING bootdevice may be renamed. Try root=dev/hda3
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-Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
-Check root= (did the sytem wait for the right device?)
-Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/sda3 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
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apt has enabled php automatically, so
/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf does have inside:
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