On 23-Jan-2012 MJ Ray wrote:
(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@wlandres.net> [...]
When I plug this in (Debian Lenny) I get a pop-up which says:
Cannot mount volume Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume 'My Passport'
dmesg | tail -35 gives:
Try /var/log/messages and /var/log/daemon to see if it traps what command it is trying to run.
I suspect it's udev or hal kicking in and trying to mount it as vfat instead of ntfs. I think they mount things under /media so that may explain the .hal-* file.
If so, you need to find the rule and add a more specific one for that disk (probably its UUID or label or something) to mount it as ntfs instead.
Hope that points you in roughly the right direction, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op.
Well, maybe ... ! The /var/log/messages looks the same as the output of dmesg which I posted previously. /var/log/daemon.log may be more informative, but I don't know how to interpret it: Jan 23 18:37:09 deb2 NetworkManager: <debug>\ [1327343829.337959] nm_hal_device_added():\ New device added (hal udi is \ '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_WD_\ My_Passport_0740_575839314138315 934373632_0_0'). Furthermore: When I used mount -o rw to force mounting rw: mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/sdc1 /mnt and then execute 'mount' to see what's there, I see: /dev/sdc1 on /mnt type ntfs (rw) so it is (allegedly) mounted rw, and with FS type NTFS, but I cannot execute 'mkdir /mnt/Test' since I get mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/Test': Operation not permitted Thanks, Ted. ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@wlandres.net> Date: 23-Jan-2012 Time: 20:04:19 This message was sent by XFMail -------------------------------------------------