[Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Derek,

For NTFS you can't mount rw or it is unsupported.  Linux guy just don't have the spec. on NTFS so write is dangerous.

Probably it is permission problem of your files on the disk, not MPD.  So better change the file permission on windows 
machines and plug back again, or re-format your disk to FAT32.

Regard,
Punky

On 4/12/2012 10:44 AM, Protech Caribsurf wrote:
> Hi Punky - I can mount it manually. I realized it was mounting as read-only
> so I hooked it up to a Windows machine and ran Chkdsk. After this it mounted
> flawlessly - no errors - and showed up as rw. Not sure if that matters?
>
> However, no matter what I do it will not list any songs when I run 'mpc
> update'. Have tried  changing permissions - says Operation not supported -
> so I went into the USB HDD via Windows again and allowed everyone all
> operations - still no joy.
>
> One odd thing - when I ran  chmod -R 777 it scrolled through every song on
> the USB drive but when is "ls /var/lib/mpd/music/music" it seems to list
> only the directories - could this have a bearing on why it won't update?
>
> Or is all this a NTFS issue?? Is there a way round it?
>
> Derek
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim-man 'Punky' TSE [mailto:punkytse at punknix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:42 PM
> To: Protech Caribsurf
> Cc: 'Kevin Wang'; voyage-linux at voyage.hk
> Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD
>
> Hi Derek,
>
> So you can see the disk, perhaps you can try manual mount.  One potential
> problem i see is your disk is NTFS formatted instead of FAT32.
>
> Regards,
> Punky
>
> On 4/11/2012 11:08 PM, Protech Caribsurf wrote:
>> root at voyage:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of
>> 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes
>> / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk
>> identifier: 0xf6158a29
>>
>>      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1               1       60801   488384001    7  HPFS/NTFS
>> root at voyage:~# ls -la /media/
>> total 40
>> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:45 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Apr 11 15:03 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb0 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root
>> 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb1 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb2
>> drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb3 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root
>> 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb5
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb6 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root
>> 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb7 root at voyage:~#
>>
>>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Kim-man "Punky" Tse
>
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