Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ntfsprogs
This is a common problem for the average user: You do not unmount a HDD
cleanly from a Windows machine (because Windows has no problem with this
HDD when you connect it to the Windows system the next time). You
connect it to an Ubuntu machine. And Ubuntu tells you it refuses to
mount this HDD because it has not been unmounted cleanly before. In case
you do not have a Windows machine nearby to mount and cleanly unmount
the HDD again, you have to fight with cryptic terminal commands to get
the HDD going.
ntfsfix offers a simpler command to solve this problem than the solution
offered by Ubuntu's error message (to work with the letter you have to
know Ubuntu drive name syntax). Unfortunately it has no GUI. Even more
unfortunately, Ubuntu does not offer to one-click solve this problem
using ntfsfix.
If there was a one-click solution the use of NTFS drives would be less a
horror for Ubuntu users. Are there any legal issues which would forbid
to implement this feature? Seems that with ntfsfix the basic engine for
this already there.
This relates to Ubuntu 8.10 64-Bit and probably all prior Ubuntu
versions.
** Affects: linux-ntfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Intrepid: No GUI for ntfsfix and start of ntfsfix not being offered when
unclean unmount error message comes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321839
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