[ubuntu-in] Unable to mount 8.1GB pendrive in Ubuntu 10.10

[Sanjay Bhangar]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 3:14 PM, sandeep kumar <tony_gr8 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> I have a problem in mounting my 8 gb pendrive in Ubuntu 10.10 - the Maverick
> Meerkat .
> i'm using transmissson and have set my 8GB pendrive to download torrents and
> it has 4.5 gb of empty space
> {means  torrent is small and pendrive ha enough free space}
>
> error is as follows
> Unable to mount 8.1GB filesystem
> Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 16: Mount is denied because the
> NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
> The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
> could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.
>

First, check that the drive is not already mounted with the 'mount' command?

Do you need the drive to be formatted to NTFS? If you ever need to
transfer a single file that is more than 4GB in size, then FAT will
not work, else you are probably better off re-formatting the drive to
FAT.
If you can't re-format / need to put files that are greater than 4gb /
need it to be NTFS for any other reason, try:
1> sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g  and then try mounting again
2> If you have access to a windows machine, connect the drive there,
cleanly unmount, and then try again.
3> If you have access to a windows machine, run chkdsk (with the -f
option) on the drive from windows (if it finds errors and fixes them,
reboot windows, run chkdsk on the drive again before unmounting and
plugging into ubuntu.)
4> Try running ntfsck on the drive on ubuntu
5> Try mounting with the -o force option like: sudo mount -t ntfs-3g
-o force /dev/sdb1 /mnt    <-- replace /dev/sdb1 with the location of
your device (can be found by running 'dmesg' after plugging in the
drive)

All the best,
Sanjay