Mount command returns "No such device"

howmanylicks · 2013-01-25 22:17:25

Hi --

I'm trying to mount an NTFS WIN XP drive using the mount command and I'm getting "No such device".

fdisk -l shows the drive I'm looking to mount: /dev/sda1

The command I'm trying to execute is:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs

I am logged in as root and created a folder under mnt called ntfs.

Is there something I'm missing here? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

gdesilva · 2013-01-25 22:26:24

Did you try using mountbox utility?

christophe · 2013-01-25 22:26:41

tailor to your own needs:

mount.cifs //192.168.0.X/remote_folder /media/ntfs -o user=Windows_domain/windows_user,rw,uid=1001,gid=1001

You will be prompted for your windows passwd

howmanylicks · 2013-01-25 22:28:44

Yes, did try Mountbox, but nothing happens when I click the drive and click "Mount" button.

howmanylicks · 2013-01-25 22:30:37

christophe -- Unfortunately I'm trying to recover a password, so that won't work.

gdesilva · 2013-01-25 22:37:08

Mounted WinXP partition using mountbox and the options used are

/dev/sdb2 on /media/cdrom type fuseblk (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)

Perhaps you may want to try using similar options when doing the command line mount...

EDIT: tried the same mount command you used at the top of this thread and it works fine for me

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