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Re: [trinity-users] Unable to mount ntfs devices

From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@...>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:12:02 -0800

On Friday 26 June 2015 01:18:13 pm pix3l wrote:
> Il 26/06/2015 20:40, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp ha scritto:
> > Am Freitag, 26. Juni 2015 schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp:
> >> Am Freitag, 26. Juni 2015 schrieb pix3l:
> >>> I'm using TDE on Debian 8, and never had a problem on mounting ntfs usb
> >>> drives, until I removed systemd from my system in favor of sysvinit.
> >>> Since that, ,my ntfs-3g package was removed, but after reinstallation
> >>> I'm getting this error:
> >>>
> >>> Unable to mount this device.
> >>> Potential reasons include:
> >>> Improper device and/or user privilege level
> >>> Corrupt data on storage device
> >>> Technical details:
> >>> No supported mounting methods were detected on your
> >>>
> >>> Is this a bug or just I need some dependency?
> >>> I can't figure out this problem alone...
> >>>
> >>> Davide
>
> >> Hi Davide,
> >>
> >> debian does not work especially well without systemd any more - remember
> >> Henry Ford? "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he
> >> wants so long as it is black."
> >>
> >> Anyway, can you mount it as root? Is something mntioned in the logfiles?
> >>
> >> Nik
> >
> > I forgot: maybe you do not have "policykit-1-gnome" installed ?
> >
> > Nik
>
> Yes, I can mount it as root, with read and write support...
> I don't have "policykit-1-gnome" installed, since it requires systemd :/
>
> Davide

If root can mount...it is a permissions issue, check groups and owner ship of 
devices.

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Greg M