Cannot mount external HDD

[Member Osmond]

Hi there,

when I try to mount my external NTFS hard drive in SpaceFM in antiX, I get the following error message:

Run: Mount /dev/sdb1
Status: Finished with error ( exit status 1 )
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FUSE exfat 1.3.0
WARN: volume was not unmounted cleanly.
fuse: mountpoint is not empty
fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the ‘nonempty’ mount option

However, the same HDD mounts fine on my MX machine and on a Ubuntu 18.04 installation, where I tried it as well. And I did unmount it cleanly. Also: USB thumb drives mount just fine on sdb1 in my antiX. So I don’t really know what to make of these error messages. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Osmondo

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NTFS drives need to be opened in the filer manager as root user.

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[Member Osmond]

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Hi,

tried that with both Rox and Space via sudo as well as su. No luck. Same error message from SpaceFM.

Osmond

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Update:

I finally found a minute to try it the good ol’ way. This worked:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/extHDD

I got a warning:
WARN: volume was not unmounted cleanly.
After unmounting with:

sudo umount /mnt/extHDD

And remounting same as before, that warning did not show up again. Ah well, I’ll just mount my NTFS drives from the shell then like I used to before overly eager file managers corrupted my soul and made me weak. I used to run a bare bones install for a while without any file manager and that worked fine. Never missed the “convenience features” while I did not have them. I’ll take this as a reason to live mostly in the shell for a while again, I guess. It cleanses the soul and hardens the finger tendons…

Osmond

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