Can't Mount NTFS HDD

[Robocop]

So normally when I plug in an NTFS HDD it auto detects and mounts on it’s own. All of a sudden it’s throwing me an error:

Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /run/media/rogan/My Passport: fsconfig() failed: No such file or directory.

I’ve searched online for a solution for a while now and haven’t found a straight forward solution. I’m a noob when it comes to mounting drives and navigating the file sysetem on Linux still. I’m assuming I just have to mount it properly somehow but I’m unsure how.

I’ve checked and I have ntfs-3g and libntfs-3g isnstalled from the software center (official repo)

Here is my lsblk -f output

[tracyanne]

@Robocop

Here is my lsblk -f output

In future please post CLI output using the </> button on the editor menu.

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[Aragorn]

@Robocop

I’ve checked and I have ntfs-3g and libntfs-3g isnstalled from the software center (official repo)

This may be irrelevant if your kernel is using the built-in ntfs3 driver. As of a few mainline kernel versions ago, ntfs3 is now the default.

In order to use ntfs-3g — which is a driver running in userspace — you need to blacklist ntfs3 first. Likewise, if you want to use ntfs3, then you may need to blacklist ntfs-3g, depending on whether you have an entry for the device in /etc/fstab, and if so, what that entry looks like.

However, as we don’t know what kernel you’re running, we can only guess at this point, so you’ll need to supply us with the proper inxi output — as we expect our members to know by now — or at the very least…

uname -r

[Robocop]

@Aragorn

In order to use ntfs-3g — which is a driver running in userspace — you need to blacklist ntfs3 first. Likewise, if you want to use ntfs3, then you may need to blacklist ntfs-3g, depending on whether you have an entry for the device in /etc/fstab, and if so, what that entry looks like.

Is it possible that ntfs-3g is overriding ntfs3? If that’s the case could I just uninstall ntfs-3g and try again?

@Aragorn

However, as we don’t know what kernel you’re running, we can only guess at this point, so you’ll need to supply us with the proper inxi output — as we expect our members to know by now — or at the very least…

CPU: 6-core AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 3599/558/4208 MHz
Kernel: 6.18.45-1-MANJARO x86_64 Up: 9m Mem: 3.28/31.26 GiB (10.5%)
Storage: 3.64 TiB (45.7% used) Procs: 420 Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.41

Mod edit: Consecutive posts merged.

[Aragorn]

@Robocop

Is it possible that ntfs-3g is overriding ntfs3?

Yes, but only on two conditions, either one of which could apply…

• if ntfs3 was blacklisted — check whether there is a blacklist file for it in /etc/modprobe.d/; or
• if the ntfs filesystem is explicitly mounted with the ntfs-3g option, e.g. via an entry in /etc/fstab.

[Robocop]

Sorry quoted the wrong sentence. I meant ot quote the fstab sentence you typed.

@Aragorn

• if ntfs3 was blacklisted — check whether there is a blacklist file for it in /etc/modprobe.d/; or

Here is my fstab output: Sorry not copy and paste option for these files. The easiest way is to attach a screenshot.

@Aragorn

• if ntfs3 was blacklisted — check whether there is a blacklist file for it in /etc/modprobe.d/;

My modprobe.d folder is empty.

Mod edit: Consecutive posts merged again.
_{Mod Edit: Fixed quote}

[Aragorn]

So there is no entry for the filesystem in /etc/fstab. This means that the kernel will use autodetection and will most likely be using the ntfs3 driver.

[Robocop]

@Aragorn

Copy/pasting should be pretty straightforward

Copy is disabled in vim and nano.

[Aragorn]

@Robocop

disabled in vim and nano.

Then use a GUI editor.

[Robocop]

@Aragorn

So there is no entry for the filesystem in /etc/fstab. This means that the kernel will use autodetection and will most likely be using the ntfs3 driver.

I just checked my software center and there’s no sign of ntfs3 installed. I’m installing ntfs3-dkms-git (AUR) from the software center. Let’s see if this does the trick.

[BG405]

@Robocop

Copy is disabled in vim and nano.

At least in nano, it’s CTRL + SHIFT + C after highlighting (selecting) the desired content, as with general Terminal output. vim may have other options; I don’t use it myself.

[Robocop]

@Aragorn

Then use a GUI editor

Glad to know that’s a thing now. Let me get one of those installed.

[Aragorn]

@Robocop

I just checked my software center and there’s no sign of ntfs3 installed.

There is no such thing. The ntfs3 driver is a loadable kernel module.

@Robocop

I’m installing ntfs3-dkms-git (AUR) from the software center. Let’s see if this does the trick.

Don’t do that. It’s not necessary. All of the supported kernels have ntfs3 configured as an in-tree loadable module.

I don’t see what purpose a dkms module from the AUR could possibly be for, and in light of the recent compromise of the AUR, I wouldn’t trust it if I were you.

[Robocop]

@BG405

At least in nano, it’s CTRL + SHIFT + C after highlighting (selecting) the desired content, as with general Terminal output. vim may have other options; I don’t use it myself.

Correction: Vim and Micro. Not Nano. Good to know though. Maybe I can install Nano as well and use the method you provided.

@Aragorn

Don’t do that. It’s not necessary.

Can confirm. Was indeed unecessary.

@Aragorn

There is no such thing. The ntfs3 driver is a loadable kernel module.

Gotchaaaaaa. Clear as mud. Me how linux smart.

[BG405]

nano should already be present by default, on most if not all Linux distros; certainly it’s the case for Manjaro.

[Robocop]

It’s installed but can’t find it anywhere. It’s hiding.

[Aragorn]

And I don’t know about Xfce and its terminal window, but in Plasma’s konsole window, any text you highlight with the mouse can be copied to the clipboard.

And in my case, with the UNIX-default setting of keeping the clipboard and the selection the same, I don’t even need to explicitly copy it — marking the text already copies it to the clipboard.

[Robocop]

@Aragorn

And I don’t know about Xfce

I believe I’m having some issues due to being on XFCE. A lot of you guys running different DE’s don’t have these little issues that I have.

[BG405]

I’d use the highlight (I do have those separate) but the middle click no longer works on this mouse & not one on the trackpad either (I have tap-to-click, gestures etc. disabled).

[Aragorn]

@Robocop

I believe I’m having some issues due to being on XFCE. A lot of you guys running different DE’s don’t have these little issues that I have.

There are multiple reasons why the mounting of your external drive could fail.

It could be a hardware fault — at any point from the drive to the USB hub on the computer’s motherboard — or it could be due to a damaged ntfs filesystem, or it could be something related to udev/udisks2/systemd`.

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@BG405

I’d use the highlight (I do have those separate) but the middle click no longer works on this mouse

Enable middle-click emulation.