Fstab to mount/fsck DOS partition results in never-ending boot-loop

Hi,
Last time I restarted my computer, I had added a line to fstab:
/dev/sdc /mnt_usb vfat users,noauto,umask=0000 0 1
/dev/sdc1 /mntc1 vfat users,noauto,umask=0000 0 1
Previously, I had only the first one, but then I added the second one just for ease of mounting a thumbdrive. When I restarted however, dosfsck would throw an error and say "reboot is required".. It would proceed to do this over and over. /dev/sdc was not in the computer at this time. I fixed it by Ctrl-Cing at the reboot prompt and then remounting everything to get a usable system and then commenting both of those lines out in fstab.
Is this expected behavior? Also, I'm still on the old rc.d scripts, I'm not for sure if this affects systemd(maybe a brave soul could try it)

chris_l wrote:
earlz wrote:/dev/sdc /mnt_usb vfat users,noauto,umask=0000 0 1
/dev/sdc1 /mntc1 vfat users,noauto,umask=0000 0 1
That it makes no sense. You are trying to mount the /dev/sdc directly to /mnt_usb (btw, create subdirs under /mnt instead), but you are also trying to mount a partition under sdc under /mntc1.
Mounting a device directly is done only if you don't have partitions there, but if you do, you mount the partitions, not the device itself.
I did it this way because I wanted easy command-line mounting of thumbdrives, and other USB devices. I have a device that implements a FAT filesystem( http://mbed.org ) which can't have partitions... But, I also like to be able to mount a thumbdrive(with partitions) in a similar manner.
Is there a better way around this then? And also, should this really cause a bootloop? It seems it should fail a bit more... gracefully

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Can't mount my Windows partition

Hey Arch Forums.
I've installed Arch64 and Arch32 on my desktop and laptop respectively, both on an array of Ext4 partitions (both have separate partitions for /, /home and /var). I followed the beginner's guide down to the letter, and now have both machines running GNOME.
Both machines also have a separate NTFS Windows XP partition, but the trouble is that neither can mount, browse or access the Windows partition without being root.
First off, typing 'mount /dev/sda1' (that's the Windows partition) resulted in '/dev/sda1 not in fstab or mtab.'
So, I added /dev/sda1 to fstab with options 'rw,users,noauto 0 0'. Rebooted, but then I found out that it decided to automatically mount itself anyway and it wasn't showing in places, and I still couldn't access the partition without being root. Anyway, so I sudo umount it, and then discover I need to add my user account to the 'disk' group to be able to issue mount/umount commands.
This worked, but it was still automounting on boot and I still couldn't access it without being root. I basically want to be able to just select the 'Windows' entry from the Places menu, have it mount and show on the desktop (it's not showing on the desktop when I boot up atm), and have Nautilus open up with the partition's root directory.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Well, I was trying previously to mount it with ntfs, as that's what was used under Ubuntu. But it's working now with ntfs-3g, I don't need to be root to read/write the disc now. However, I'm still having trouble with mounting it as non-root.
First off, this is my fstab:
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
UUID=6cae25c5-cc5b-42ae-ad3a-70e892274a34 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=f7e4d887-43d5-4ac4-869f-a2a5e4c16e2f /var ext4 defaults 0 2
UUID=4a07547f-1fd6-41ea-8db7-469120830111 /home ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2
UUID=08d54f59-520a-4e8e-9a9d-d440f2eff54e swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=5AB82DB8B82D9393 /media/Windows ntfs-3g defaults,users,exec 0 0
As you can see, it's mounting on boot up at the moment. When I put noauto into the options, it doesn't mount, but when I'm on the desktop and try to mount it as non-root, I get the error "ntfs-3g-mount: user has no write access to mountpoint /media/Windows". As I was typing that out, another error appeared telling me that DBus encountered an error as it did not receive a reply.
When I issue the mount command in terminal, I get "mount: only root can do that." - what should I do?

I am unable to mount my NTFS partition after the last update

I usually mounted my NTFS partition with the "gnome-disk" utility. It works no longer, only if I start it with "sudo". But in this case the mount point will be in a directory called "root" and this cause several problems, eg.: old hardcoded paths stop working in scripts. What can I do to make the gnome-disk utility work as an ordinary user.

Thx, maybe I could use the fstab to mount the partition, am I right? But I don't know how to do it properly, because when I tried it in the past native hungarian characters iny the file and directory names always caused problems. If I somehow could capture the command sequence which the gnome-disk utility passes to the kernel / bash, would be helpful.

How to mount SATA Ntfs Partitions on Arch Linux

Please help me mounting sata ntfs partitions.
Here is my fdisk -l :
[kaola@ArchHost ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x020e020e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 371 2980026 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 372 2803 19535040 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2804 6450 29294527+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 6451 6463 104422+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd7a23d33
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 5875 47182905 5 Extended
/dev/sdb2 * 5876 9139 26218080 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb5 2 3918 31463271 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 3919 5875 15719571 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 4043 MB, 4043308544 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 491 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00050ebd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 491 3943926 b W95 FAT32
As far as I know, the sata ntfs partitions are those with (sdb#).
I tried mounting one of them but this is what it shows:
[kaola@ArchHost ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdb6
mount: can't find /dev/sdb6 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Please help me, this is very annoying compared to ubuntu which does do the job pretty well. By the way, I'm using kde as my DE. Dolphin sees the partitions but cant access.
It says:
An error occured while accessing 'Backup2 HD2', the system responded:
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure: TODO:
have to rethink extra options
Reading some tutorials on ntfs-3g wiki, I've modified my fstab. Still, I can't read the partitions...Please help me, this is my fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
UUID=2167baaa-d1e0-4719-920c-0bc09fa56caa / reiserfs defaults 0 1
UUID=3e2250a0-ac45-458c-ba40-44ddbe8af54d /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=cbf76343-12cf-4975-9284-3360735be927 /home reiserfs defaults 0 1
UUID=f39da452-efe4-49d0-abd4-bb5246b83b33 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
UUID=2167baaa-d1e0-4719-920c-0bc09fa56caa / reiserfs defaults 0 1
UUID=3e2250a0-ac45-458c-ba40-44ddbe8af54d /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=cbf76343-12cf-4975-9284-3360735be927 /home reiserfs defaults 0 1
UUID=f39da452-efe4-49d0-abd4-bb5246b83b33 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs1 ntfs-3g users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /mnt/ntfs2 ntfs-3g users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /mnt/ntfs3 ntfs-3g users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/sda6 /mnt/ntfs4 ntfs-3g users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
Last edited by kaola_linux (2008-10-04 14:51:24)

AD28 wrote:
For seamless integration similar to Ubuntu:
Follow this wiki for ntfs-3g installation and fstab configuration.
For basic on-demand support:
# pacman -Sy ntfs-3g
and mount with:
# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdbX /mnt
Now that did the trick!!!!!
A happy Arch Linux user here!!!!hehee
Any idea how to automate this? I want it to be automatically mounted so that it would be easy to transfer files...Pleasssseeeeee.....Thanks

[SOLVED] Mounting a logical partition

Scenario:
/dev/sda1 primary NTFS windows boot
/dev/sda2 primary NTFS windows home
/dev/sda3 primary ext4 arch /boot
/dev/sda5 primary ext4 arch /
/dev/sda6 logical ext4 arch /home
/dev/sda7 arch swap
Do I perform mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/home as if it were a "normal" partition?
EDIT: I would mount each logical partition as normal.
Last edited by tancrackers (2012-08-29 03:34:46)

shortcut144 wrote:
perbh wrote:
Assume your fat-partition is /dev/sda5 (just as an example)
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda5 /some/mount/point
Otherwise - as 's3kt0r' says - you can easily mount a ntfs-partition for read/write as well (using ntfs-3g)
Awesome, thank you. Marked as solved.
Should I put this command in my fstab, or just make a startup command for this?
You could do either ....
If it will _always_ be there and you always want it mounted - put it in /etc/fstab, -or- you could put it in /etc/rc.local (without using 'sudo' of course).
I'm a great believer in using rc.local because you _know_ that everything which might be needed (modules eg.) will be available by then.
If you use /etc/fstab, your entry would be:
/dev/sda5 /mount/point vfat defaults 0 0

Bootpartition won't mount, fsck finds no errors

Hi guys,
got a strange situation here. My Bootpartition /dev/sda2 won't mount in Arch anymore.
mount /dev/sda2:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Manchmal liefert das Syslog wertvolle Informationen – versuchen
Sie dmesg | tail oder so
The same error appers during boot. I don't know how Arch can boot without bootpartition but ist does...
Another strange thing is that it mounts fine in Mandriva running on the same machine. Also testdisk under Windows didn't complain.
dmesg | tail
EXT2-fs (sda2): error: corrupt root inode, run e2fsc
e2fsck /dev/sda2
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
archboot: sauber, 43/36288 Dateien, 33179/144584 Blöcke
grep -i archboot /etc/fstab
LABEL=archboot /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
file -s /dev/sda2
/dev/sda2: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data, UUID=c477713e-ff47-40f3-92f0-537291f24937, volume name "archboot
So what now? Any help is appreciated.

no changes to any partitions were made, just did a fatal "pacman -Syu"...
i removed the /boot completely from fstab and tried to mount the partition manually.
i also recreated the whole partition under ubuntu. copied the files out, deleted the entire partition, recreated it and copied the files back.
arch linux still can't mount it.
also when i'm trying to mount my jfs partition, the "mount" command hangs completely. even "kill -SIGKILL $pid" can't get rid of it.
the jfs partition also mounts fine under ubuntu, i ran tests on every partition under ubuntu, they're all clean.
mounting an jfs partition don't give any logfile entry, dmesg is also empty. it's just hanging. the funny thing is, that ext4 and vfat partitions are mounting fine.
could something be wrong with hal or dbus?
here's e2fsck output:
e2fsck -pvf /dev/sda8
35 inodes used (0.15%)
4 non-contiguous files (11.4%)
0 non-contiguous directories (0.0%)
# of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 10/6/0
35980 blocks used (37.34%)
0 bad blocks
0 large files
22 regular files
4 directories
0 character device files
0 block device files
0 fifos
0 links
0 symbolic links (0 fast symbolic links)
0 sockets
26 files
--------EDIT:
finally found it!
for some reason (i don't know why) the /boot partition was not mounted during update and thus the kernel26 image was written into the /boot directory of the root partition instead of the /boot partition (where it belongs). this means on next bootup the system was booting with the older kernel but the updated system. maybe some things in filesystem handling were changed between the two versions of the kernel.
i mounted the arch partitions within ubuntu and copied the files from the /boot directory to the partition which should be mounted in /boot on startup.
everything's working now.
Last edited by thok (2011-03-22 16:44:32)

Problems mounting windows (vfat) partition

Hi,
Im having this problem, i mount the vfat partition because i have some mp3 overthere and i want to listen with XMMS while in Arch.
Then, when i try to browse through XMMS file browser, i cant browse the vfat partition, the directories and files, all of them, appear at the right panel, like if they were all files, so i cant get "inside" the mp3 folder...
any clues??
mount command:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win

since you are using /mnt as your destination directory, you need to make sure that you have changed permissions for that so that a user can access it if you haven't already. I usually mount mine in my /home/user/ directory to save the hassle and because it is more convenient.
here is some info on how to do it:
/dev/hda1 /home/user/windows vfat user,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /home/user/winmusic vfat user,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
*this will allow you to write to those directories. All you need to do in either case is save this as your new fstab file.
*to make sure your id's are 500, type "id" in your terminal, if they are something different than 500, substitute that number instead for both uid and gid.
In Arch, the primary user is usually uid=1000 and gid=100

You should also create directories for and mount any other partitions

Hi,
I've downloaded archlinux-2012.12.01-dual.iso and wrote it to USB. I've booted from that USB and set up partititons using command cfdisk.
/dev/sda5 ==> /boot
/dev/sda6 ==> /
/dev/sda7 ==> swap
/dev/sda8 ==> /home
I don't remember if I've created /mnt or if it was already there. I've created two directories: /mnt/boot and /mnt/home as per instructions:
"https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide
Mount the partitions
We now must mount the root partition on /mnt. You should also create directories for and mount any other partitions (/mnt/boot, /mnt/home, ...) if you want them to be detected by genfstab."
I've mounted /dev/sda6 on /mnt
and now there are no /mnt/boot and /mnt/home under the /mnt
I don't understand what to do now because instructions state that I should create directories /mnt/boot and /mnt/home and mount them but now that I've mounted / on /mnt the /mnt/boot and /mnt/home are not available to mount partitions /dev/sda6 and /dev/sda8
Regards

mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/boot
Then do pacstrap etc. Add /home to fstab before you reboot.
Alternatively you can mkdir /mnt/home and mount /sda8 there too, then genfstab will add the entry in fstab for it for you.
Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2012-12-18 14:27:48)

[SOLVED] Error mounting a Fat32 partition

Hi, I'm new to this distro, but it looks quite neat. Unfortunately, I have an issue that I haven't been able to solve through the wiki or the man pages.
I have my main hard drive partitioned in three:
- Windows (ntfs)
- Linux (ext3)
- Data (all my files, docs, images...) (fat32)
I have problems mounting the Data partition into Archlinux.
A) Trying manually
First I tried mounting it manually to make sure I had done it right. The command
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda5 /media/docs
allowed me to see and read the files and write them. When I switched back to Windows, however, the OS told me there was an error in the Data partition, specifically with all the files I have changed or created using Archlinux. I ran Chkdsk and it fixed the files by deleting changes. Now, whenever I try to mount manually the partition, it mount it as a read-only file system, even when the -w or the -rw option is added.
B) Writting in /etc/fstab
Meanwhile, I tried several options in fstab to see if I could write on the disk. The lines I tried are:
/dev/sda5 /media/docs vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/docs vfat defaults,iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/docs vfat defaults,user,dmask=000,fmask=111 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/docs vfat defaults,user,rw,umask=000, 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/docs vfat user,rw,umask=000, 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/docs vfat defaults,iocharset=utf8,user,rw,umask=000, 0 0
All these options (I obviously didn't use them at the same time) mounted the partition and I could read the files, but I was never able to write to it, either as a normal user or root. I read the wiki, the man page of fstab and mount and there isn't anything much of help there.
Hope someone can help me. Thanks a lot.
R
P.D. I've been doing all these switching back and forwrad between windows and linux. I have always hibernated windows. I don't think this is the problem, but I will shut Windows down completely to see if it was the Chkdsk utility.
Last edited by robertoprs (2009-02-09 07:07:34)

Sorry, I forgot to post the answer...
So I just needed to restart Windows after using Chkdsk. Now I can read and write even when Windows is only hibernated. I'm just curious. I understand that this problem was a very stupid question, but it wasn't obvious to me that Chkdsk needed a reboot to "let go" the partition. Why is that?
Thanks for your help.
By the way, I've learned a lot with the wiki guides. This distro is getting better and better!

Bootcamp Partition Will Not Mount - Size Bootcamp Partition Will Not Mount - Also Size Discrepancies

I have bootcamp installed on an internal hard drive in my Mac Pro running 10.8.5. This HD had two partitions, one of which I had 200GB allocated for my Windows install. I reached a point where I was at nearly 100% capacity on that drive and needed more room. This is what I did:
Used Disk Utility to shrink the Mac OS Extended partition.
Erased free space on that partition.
Booted back into Windows and used MiniTool to extend the bootcamp partition to unallocated space.
MinoTool then performed a restart and finished it's job upon startup.
I am still able to boot into Windows and Mac just fine and I did create a backup of each OS before starting.
I have two issues now, however. Parallels no long recognized that Bootcamp partition. I decided to delete that VM and I had to uninstall Parallels completely anyways due to an upgrage isse to Parallels 9. After upgrading, Creating a VM from my BC was not an option. This is because the BC partition will not mount, it is greyed out in Disk Utitlity.
I tried installing Tuxera NTFS and the disk still cannot be mounted.
The other issue is that Disk Utility does not show the Bootcamp partition with the correct size. It still shows it with the original 200GB but does show that the Mac Partition was shrunk. In Windows, however, either using MiniTool or Windows Disk Managment, it shows the correct sizes for the partitions.
I'll attach a screenshot of DU.
I would like to be able to mount the drive successfully so that I can use the partition once again for Parallels.
This is the system.log display when attempting to mount the BOOTCAMP partition and when disabling Tuxera from the system preferences:
Nov 7 08:35:46 ***-mac-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[27]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.volume.internal.mount' by client '/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app' [973] for authorization created by '/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app' [973] (100013,0)
Nov 7 08:35:46 ***-mac-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[27]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.volume.internal.mount' by client '/usr/sbin/diskarbitrationd' [15] for authorization created by '/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app' [973] (100002,0)
Nov 7 08:35:47 ***-mac-pro kernel[0]: NTFS driver 3.10 [Flags: R/W].
Nov 7 08:35:47 ***-mac-pro kernel[0]: NTFS volume name BOOTCAMP, version 3.1.
Nov 7 08:35:47 ***-mac-pro kernel[0]: NTFS-fs error (device /dev/disk3s3, pid 5414): ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name(): Directory index record with VCN 0x3 is corrupt. Corrupt inode 0x5. Run chkdsk.
Nov 7 08:35:47 ***-mac-pro kernel[0]: NTFS-fs error (device /dev/disk3s3, pid 5414): ntfs_windows_hibernation_status_check(): Failed to find inode number for hiberfil.sys.
Nov 7 08:35:47 ***-mac-pro kernel[0]: NTFS-fs warning (device /dev/disk3s3, pid 5414): ntfs_system_inodes_get(): Failed to determine if Windows is hibernated. Will not be able to remount read-write. Run chkdsk.
Nov 7 08:35:47 ***-mac-pro kernel[0]: NTFS-fs error (device /dev/disk3s3, pid 5414): ntfs_attr_find_in_attribute_list(): Base inode 0x9 contains corrupt attribute list attribute. Unmount and run chkdsk.
Nov 7 08:35:47 ***-mac-pro kernel[0]: NTFS-fs error (device /dev/disk3s3, pid 5414): ntfs_inode_read(): Failed to lookup data attribute.
Nov 7 08:35:47 ***-mac-pro kernel[0]: NTFS-fs error (device /dev/disk3s3, pid 5414): ntfs_inode_read(): Failed (error 5) for inode 0x9. Run chkdsk.
Nov 7 08:35:47 ***-mac-pro kernel[0]: NTFS-fs error (device /dev/disk3s3, pid 5414): ntfs_inode_attach(): Failed to load inode 0x9.
Nov 7 08:35:47 ***-mac-pro kernel[0]: NTFS-fs error (device /dev/disk3s3, pid 5414): ntfs_secure_load(): Failed to load $Secure.
Nov 7 08:35:47 ***-mac-pro kernel[0]: NTFS-fs error (device /dev/disk3s3, pid 5414): ntfs_mount(): Failed to load system files (error 5).
Nov 7 08:35:47 ***-mac-pro kernel[0]: NTFS-fs error (device /dev/disk3s3, pid 5414): ntfs_mount(): Mount failed (error 5).
Nov 7 08:35:48 ***-mac-pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[27]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/System Preferences.app' [5297] for authorization created by '/Applications/System Preferences.app' [5297] (100012,0)
Thanks,
Josh

Josh,
I will defer to Christopher on correcting the GPT, but I agree it is incorrect. On a much simpler, single disk Macmini with Bootcamp...
sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
      start       size index contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 725093952      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
725503592    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
726773128        632
726773760 249999360      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
976773120         15
976773135         32         Sec GPT table
976773167          1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0
Disk: /dev/rdisk0          geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 725093952] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 725503592 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 726773760 - 249999360] HPFS/QNX/AUX
diskutil list /dev/disk0
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            371.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                128.0 GB   disk0s4
PS: I see Christopher's response.

Mavericks refuses to mount Time Machine partition

Hi there,
Two days ago, my MBP crashed, kernel panicked. Since then, it has not been able to mount my external Time Machine partition. Notice that the external drive has two partitions in it, MBP is happy to mount the other partition, but not the TM one.
I ran Verify Disk and Repair Disk with Disk Utilities First Aid, and everything came back fine "The volume Work Time Machine appears to be OK." But then if I try to mount, I get "The disk "Work Time Machine" could not be mounted.
What can/should I do to mount/recover this?
Thanks!

Launch/Utilities/Terminal and copy & paste this command at the prompt:
diskutil list
Press return.
If it sees the disk, note the number of the disk (far left column) you want to mount.
Then, enter copy & paste this command:
mount /dev/(number of disk)
Put in the number no parenthesis.
Press Return.
Also might try
mount force /dev/(number of disk)
And see...
http://pondini.org/TM/C14.html

Solaris 10: Mounting a extended partition

Hi, I have Solaris 10 installed in a x86 machine.
I have one hard disk with 3 primary partitions (ntfs, ufs, fat32). I have 1 extended partiton that containts 2 partitions (ext3 and fat32).
Can i mount my extended partitions in Solaris?
I mount my first fat32 (hda2 in linux) partition with:
"mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d0p2 /mnt/ruben"
In wich way can i mount my second fat32 partition?
"mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d?s?p? /mnt/david"
Can i mount my linux partition?
Finally, in wich way can i mount my Solaris partition in linux?
I try "mount -t ufs /dev/hda3 /mnt/solaris/
" but it doesn't work.
Saludos.
PD: Sorry for my sucks english :)

Solaris 10 won't reconize your extended partitions, its limited in primary partitions only at this time. This may change ofcourse, it wouldn't surprise me if you see support appear somewhere in either Solaris Express or a later Open Solaris release.
Mounting your linux partition is therefor only possible if its located on an extended partition. As to Linux itself; it heavily depends on the filesystem. I think to have read somewhere that you can add ext2 support in Solaris, but I don't think that'll work for filesystems like reiser, xfs or ext3. (although the latter might be accessible as ext2).
Finally, a little offtopic (but not too much)... Yes, Linux supports mounting Solaris x86 slices, but its very likely that you'll need to recompile your kernel. You'll need to add UFS filesystem support as well as support for the Solaris/x86 partition table.
I suggest checking out a few howto's on www.tldp.org on instructions how to compile your kernel.

[Triaged] System tries to mount iPod firmware partition

Hi. I switched from hal-easy back to hal today, and it's started doing something weird.
It's trying to mount my iPod's firmware partition now. It's the first partition, and doesn't have a file system on it. So before mounting the iPod's real partition, I get an error dialog about how it failed to mount that first partition, and then proceeds to mount the second one. Icons for both partitions are visible on the desktop, and in thunar. I'm using xfce 4.6, and exo-mountopt from AUR.
It didn't behave this way before switching to hal-easy, and while I was using hal-easy. What could be going on here? How can I fix it?
Last edited by TiZ (2009-09-23 19:35:37)

I found a way to work around this problem.
Create /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules, or if you already have it, add this:
# Ignore iPod's first partition
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb" ATTRS{product}=="Rockbox media player" KERNEL=="sd?1" OPTIONS+="ignore_device last_rule"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb" ATTRS{product}=="iPod" KERNEL=="sd?1" OPTIONS+="ignore_device last_rule"
This covers iPods with both Apple OS and Rockbox. After making it, the icon for the system partition will still be on the desktop. Just log out and log back in and it will disappear.
And if you get nitpicky about the volume label being all-caps like I do, you can make /etc/hal/fdi/policy/05-labels.fdi and then restart hal:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="volume.label" string="TIZPOD">
<merge key="volume.label" type="string">TiZPod</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Unfortunately, these are all only work-arounds for behavior that was not exhibited before... as for when it changed, I can't remember for the life of me. I'd rather not have to use work-arounds, but they're working. I've marked the thread as "triaged" instead of "solved" because the problem's not fixed, just worked around.
Now I'd like to figure out how to get my iPod icon back instead of the boring hard drive icon when I use Rockbox USB, but I'm sure I can just google around for that.
Last edited by TiZ (2009-09-23 19:38:39)

I tried to put a copy of windows xp on a dos partition on my mac pro and now cannot access the hard drive with the latest maverics on it

I tried to put a copy of windows xp on a dos partition on my harddrive partitioned for mac pro os x maveriks 10.9.3 but with a dos partition fat32 for the windows; but when I tried to reboot I cannot now access the hard drive. Sometimes I get a white page with a question mark and sometimes I get a black screen with a blinking curser at the top. I have a backup mac with lion which I am now using to comunicate.

Windows XP has a notorious reputation for crapping on multiple partition boot blocks, including in your case, OS X.
There are three options.
Boot into Recovery (Press and hold command+R at boot)Choices
Restore from Time Machine backup
Retrieve and install current version of OS X from Apple Servers
Boot into Internet Recovery (Press and hold option+command+R at boot)
Requires Mac that shipped with OS X Lion or later
Retrieves and installs original version of OS X that shipped with the machine
Must update to Mavericks again
Restore user data from Time Machine
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar appointmentSee if Apple will reinstall OS X Mavericks for you
When you resurrect your machine, follow Eric Root's advice about Boot Camp, or a Virtual Machine. Boot Camp v5.1 on Mavericks no longer supports Windows XP, Vista, or Enterprise versions of Windows 7 or 8.

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