MoonPoint Support Logo

 

Shop Amazon Warehouse Deals - Deep Discounts on Open-box and Used ProductsAmazon Warehouse Deals



Advanced Search
November
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
         
23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
2024
Months
NovDec


Fri, Nov 30, 2007 11:00 pm

Mounting a Dirty NTFS Volume

If you try to mount an NTFS volume on Linux that was used on a Windows system and get the message below, then Windows was not shut down properly. E.g. the system may have crashed or there was a power failure.
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0)
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action:

Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by
          clicking on the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows
          taskbar then shutdown Windows cleanly.

Choice 2: If you don't have Windows then you can use the 'force' option for
          your own responsibility. For example type on the command line:

            mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd -o force

    Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file:

            /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd ntfs-3g defaults,force 0 0
Presuming the volume is /dev/sda1 and you want to mount it at /mnt/hdd, you can mount the volume read-only with mount -r /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd. Or you can force a mount in read-write mode with mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd -o force. But it might be best to run Windows chkdsk or a utility with similar functionality first, since the fact that the dirty bit is set could indicate corruption to the volume's file structure.

[/os/unix/commands/mount] permanent link

Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional

Privacy Policy   Contact

Blosxom logo