Cannot mount volume

[Ken Jannot]

Gutsy Gibbon will not recognize any drive except the one it is installed on. It sees the drives, but cannot read them. When I try to open the folders, I receive the message, "Cannot mount volume." When I go into the partition editor, I see the message, "Unable to read the contents of this filesystem" for those drives. Again, I had no troubles under Feisty--but now with Gutsy, I cannot access these drives.

[jtholmes (jtholmes)]

Thank you for your report

Could you detail the steps you take to get to the partition editor

and

could you please attach your /etc/fstab file

and

and could you please attach the output of this command df -k

[LaMont Jones (lamont)]

mount is/was doing what it was told to do. (by fstab and gnome...)

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[raywood (ray-woodcock)]

I get this same error. I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10. I open Partition Editor from the menu and look at /dev/sda. The first item listed there is /dev/sda3. It's a 214GB NTFS primary partition. There's a yellow warning triangle next to it, and its Windows label (CURRENT) isn't shown. When I double-click on it, or when I right-click on it and choose Information, I get an indication that it is not mounted and a statement, "Unable to read the contents of this filesystem!" It is a working partition that I was just using in WinXP before rebooting into Intrepid on this dual-boot AMD system. I did a normal shutdown and reboot when leaving WinXP; no system reset or anything like that.

In Nautilus, when I click Computer and then double-clicke on CURRENT, I get this:

  Cannot mount volume.
  You are not privileged to mount the volume 'CURRENT'.

After a few seconds, I get a dialog that says this:

  Opening "CURRENT".
  You can stop this operation by clicking cancel.

A few seconds later, I get this dialog on a different desktop:

  Unable to mount location
  DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

Double-clicking opens the other NTFS partitions on this system without difficulty.

I can't get at this partition with these steps:

  sudo -i
  nautilus
  [browse to /media]

That doesn't work because CURRENT is not shown as one of the partitions there, and when I click on Computer at that location, I get this error:

  Could not display "computer:".
  Nautilus cannot handle "computer" locations.

I have added a line to my /etc/fstab that attempts to mount the partition, but it's not working. The fstab is:

**************************************************

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdb5 :
UUID=997ccdbf-265c-4024-a314-b78b71f2d122 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/ !! UNKNOW DEVICE !! :
UUID=903fa40e-f48a-45b2-a6b4-8fb5b24f74df none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sdc8 /media/CURRBACKUP ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sdc7 /media/COLDSTORAGE ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/BACKROOM ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/CURRENT ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

**************************************************

Not sure what that "UNKNOW DEVICE" line is all about.

df -k gives me this:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb5 30232016 5225188 23778180 19% /
tmpfs 2543908 0 2543908 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 2543908 132 2543776 1% /var/run
varlock 2543908 0 2543908 0% /var/lock
udev 2543908 2836 2541072 1% /dev
tmpfs 2543908 ...