On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 3:14 PM, sandeep kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a problem in mounting my 8 gb pendrive in Ubuntu 10.10 - the Maverick > Meerkat . > i'm using transmissson and have set my 8GB pendrive to download torrents and > it has 4.5 gb of empty space > {means torrent is small and pendrive ha enough free space} > > error is as follows > Unable to mount 8.1GB filesystem > Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 16: Mount is denied because the > NTFS volume is already exclusively opened. > The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which > could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command. >
First, check that the drive is not already mounted with the 'mount' command? Do you need the drive to be formatted to NTFS? If you ever need to transfer a single file that is more than 4GB in size, then FAT will not work, else you are probably better off re-formatting the drive to FAT. If you can't re-format / need to put files that are greater than 4gb / need it to be NTFS for any other reason, try: 1> sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g and then try mounting again 2> If you have access to a windows machine, connect the drive there, cleanly unmount, and then try again. 3> If you have access to a windows machine, run chkdsk (with the -f option) on the drive from windows (if it finds errors and fixes them, reboot windows, run chkdsk on the drive again before unmounting and plugging into ubuntu.) 4> Try running ntfsck on the drive on ubuntu 5> Try mounting with the -o force option like: sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o force /dev/sdb1 /mnt <-- replace /dev/sdb1 with the location of your device (can be found by running 'dmesg' after plugging in the drive) All the best, Sanjay -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
