Cannot Mount NTFS USB External

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Cannot Mount NTFS USB External

Post by Hunkydunky » 2017/07/23 15:02:10

Hello,
I have literally exhausted all the forums discussion on this topic so hopefully someone can shed light on my issue.
I have a Seagate 2TB external USB drive I want to mount to my Centos 6 machine but it does not want to work.
I get this message when I attempt to mount:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/smb
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

These are the details of the drive:

parted /dev/sdb print
Model: Seagate Backup+ Desk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 8192B 2000GB 2000GB primary

fuse and ntfs-3g are installed...I'm at a loss.

Any ideas ?

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Re: Cannot Mount NTFS USB External

Post by Whoever » 2017/07/23 17:05:39

You haven't shown that the partition is formatted as NTFS.

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Re: Cannot Mount NTFS USB External

Post by TrevorH » 2017/07/23 18:12:53

What does file -s /dev/sdb1 say?
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Re: Cannot Mount NTFS USB External

Post by Hunkydunky » 2017/07/23 18:38:41

file -s /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x7, starthead 254, startsector 2, 488378643 sectors, extended partition table (last)\011, code offset 0x0

fdisk /dev/sdb -l
Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)

Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398929920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30400 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 4096 = 65802240 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 30401 1953514572 7 HPFS/NTFS

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Re: Cannot Mount NTFS USB External

Post by TrevorH » 2017/07/23 19:03:34

Wrong command, try the one I wrote.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Re: Cannot Mount NTFS USB External

Post by Hunkydunky » 2017/07/23 19:12:41

file -s /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x76

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Re: Cannot Mount NTFS USB External

Post by Hunkydunky » 2017/07/23 19:34:06

Did I get it right ?

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Re: Cannot Mount NTFS USB External

Post by TrevorH » 2017/07/23 20:50:00

Well you ran it against the partition but the output you get is totally different from what I get when run against my one and only NTFS partition.

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# file -s /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS    ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 64, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80)
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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