Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-volume-manager
Often users will be sharing files by USB stick with a Windows system. If
the USB stick is formatted with NTFS and was not cleanly unmounted by
Windows (i.e. just pulled out), Ubuntu pops up a message with the
literal failure message from mount, which does very nicely explain that
it can not mount the stick when the NTFS is "dirty", but in a way that
only makes sense to more technical users.
In this particular case, i.e. when a USB stick can not be mounted
because the NTFS partition was not unmounted cleanly, it would be nicer
if a dialog informed the user in a friendly way, and perhaps just allow
mounting read-only, which should be safe (though I don't know if it
would work reliably since the NTFS is not in a sane state).
IMHO this is a fairly common situation, and deserves special care from
the volume manager.
(I am assuming there is no "NTFSCK" for Linux, otherwise that would also
be an option of course).
** Affects: gnome-volume-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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volume manager special case when mounting unclean NTFS usb stick
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223588
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