Allow mounting unclean NTFS usb stick
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-mount (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-volume-
Often users will be sharing files by USB stick with a Windows system. If the USB stick is formatted with NTFS and was not cleanly unmounted by Windows (i.e. just pulled out), Ubuntu pops up a message with the literal failure message from mount, which does very nicely explain that it can not mount the stick when the NTFS is "dirty", but in a way that only makes sense to more technical users.
In this particular case, i.e. when a USB stick can not be mounted because the NTFS partition was not unmounted cleanly, it would be nicer if a dialog informed the user in a friendly way, and perhaps just allow mounting read-only, which should be safe (though I don't know if it would work reliably since the NTFS is not in a sane state).
IMHO this is a fairly common situation, and deserves special care from the volume manager.
(I am assuming there is no "NTFSCK" for Linux, otherwise that would also be an option of course).
| Jordan Hall (jordan-hall) wrote | #1 |
I also suggest 'Would you like to force mount this volume anyway?'.