Re: Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

Alexander Batischev wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:58:57PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I've got an USB key whose FS was manually set to NTFS for different reasons. What do you mean by manually set to NTFS? You mean, it has other FS but then you formatted it to NTFS?

Re: Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:33:02AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: - try to mount it manually in a way like that: # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey Of course, /dev/sda1 should be replaced with real device name, and /mnt/usbkey shoul exist. Thanks. Well, I found the key

Re: Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

Alexander Batischev wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:33:02AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: - try to mount it manually in a way like that: # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey Of course, /dev/sda1 should be replaced with real device name, and /mnt/usbkey shoul exist.

Re: Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

In 4c874aba.6000...@student.ulg.ac.be, Merciadri Luca wrote: I should have realized that I had not the ntfs-3g driver. But why isn't that already installed with a basic install? The vast majority of Debian systems do not have to deal with NTFS filesystems. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:35:06 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Alexander Batischev wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:33:02AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Thanks. Well, I found the key under /dev/disk/by-id/. After having typed the aforementioned command, I get `mount: unknown filesystem

Re: Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:58:57PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I've got an USB key whose FS was manually set to NTFS for different reasons. What do you mean by manually set to NTFS? You mean, it has other FS but then you formatted it to NTFS? That's okay, I think. [ 8997.719566]