DIFFICULTY MOUNTING REMOVABLE DRIVE

[Maurice Murphy]

Problem solved!  I had a mix up in folders that showed up in 
/etc/fstab.  Sorry to trouble.  All's well that ends well. :-)  :-)  :-)

Maurice

Maurice Murphy wrote:
> For some reason or other, all of a sudden, I am unable to mount my large 
> removable drive.  I get the following message when I attempt to mount 
> the drive:
>
> maurice at MAURICE:~$ sudo mount -a
> fusermount: mountpoint is not empty
> fusermount: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option
> FUSE mount point creation error: No such file or directory
> Unmounting /dev/sdb5 (MyBackups)
>
> What should I enter in terminal to use the 'nonempty' mount option?
> maurice at MAURICE:~$ sudo mount -a
> fusermount: mountpoint is not empty
> fusermount: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option
> FUSE mount point creation error: No such file or directory
> Unmounting /dev/sdb5 (MyBackups)
>
> I am using ntfs-3g and have verified all the steps necessary for its 
> installation.  My /etc/fstab seems OK.  I have made no changes there.
>
> I am pretty sure that my sources.list is OK, although I get a bit dizzy 
> trying to read all the lines!
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might resolve this problem?
>
> Many thanks in advance, Maurice
>
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