[Wylug-help] Messed up installation.

[John Leach]

hi Douglas,

to use mount, you tell it the device you want to mount (usually in
the /dev directory) and the mount point you want to mount it on (usually
an empty directory, often in the /mnt directory).

and to specify options for mount, you use the -o argument.  So for
read-only mode:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows -o ro

make sure the mount point exists: mkdir /mnt/windows

and make sure you're actually mounting the right partition.  An easy way
to do this is to use the "file" command, which looks in a file (or
device) and tells you what it thinks it is.  It's non-destructive, so
poke it wherever you like.  So on my box:

file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, stage2 address 0x2000, stage2 segment 0x200; partition 2: ID=0x8e, starthead 0, startsector 498960, 175785120 sectors, code offset 0x48

file -s /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery)

I don't have a windows partition so I can't show you what file's output
will be like, but it should be self explanatory.

I've not used ntfsfix or anything like that before, so I can't help you
there.  Mounting in read-only mode sounds like it will help you at least
recover your data though ("-o ro" as in my example)

All the best.

John.

On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 17:17 +0000, Douglas G Mckendrick wrote:
> Trying to mount the partition from the command line, this is what I get:
> 
> root at 1[/]# mount /mnt/sda
> mount: can't find /mnt/sda in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> root at 1[/]# mount /mnt/sda1
> $LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0)
> Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not supported
> Mount is denied because NTFS logfile is unclean. Choose one action:
>    Boot Windows and shutdown it cleanly, or if you have a removable
>    device then click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows
>    taskbar notification area before disconnecting it.
> Or
>    Run 'ntfsfix' on Linux unless you have Vista, then mount NTFS with
>    the 'force' option read-write, or with the 'ro' option read-only.
> Or
>    Mount the NTFS volume with the 'ro' option in read-only mode.

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