Help for usb disk and usb pendrive

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On Tuesday 11 March 2008 20:21:34 Valter Mura wrote:


> /dev/sda1 /media/disk1 ntfs-3g defaults,force 0 0
> ***
>
> I CANNOT use the choice one.

Why, no Windows?

> My fstab file is:
> ***

> /dev/sda1 /media/disk1 auto users,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
> ***
>
> Note that I have already installed "ntfs-3g" and "ntfs-config", so I
> supposed I could use the hard disk.
>
> Do I have to *substitute* the last line in fstab file with
> */dev/sda1 /media/disk1 ntfs-3g defaults,force 0 0* or only add it to the
> file?

La prima che hai detto! ;-) At least try it. If it doesn't work try to delete 
the line, find out if you usb disk is really sda1 or what it really is (in 
konsole sudo fdisk -l ) and give the command
 mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/disk1 -o force

But it might not work now because...

> Another issue: now the system isn't able to mount and read/write also usb
> pendrives, and before Kubuntu recognised my pen drives.

Have you upgraded to kde 3.5.9? Do you recall updating ntfs-3g recently? I'm 
having problems now even if not with pendrives.

> Why? Perhaps some 
> conflict? Do I need to configure the fstab, adding a customized line for
> the usb hard disk? Or for the usb pendrive, which, I suppose, should be
> "seen" by the system automatically?

For the usb disk, as said, you might, but pendrives shouldn't need it.

> The only solution I know presently, as I'm not very skilled with the OS and
> the Konsole, is to reset everything and reinstall Kubuntu in the internal
> hard disk, which is dedicated to Linux, than indipendent from Windows.

I know it's bad to say here, but gnome (ubuntu) has not these hungups these 
days. 

> Please, help me, I don't want to lose my mail and music and photos... thank
> you in advance.

Keep your /home safe! ;-)

Ciao,

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