• pvsage
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Topic: NTFS USB HD and fresh Statler install

OK, so if you install CrunchBang (possibly other Debian-based distros?) while you have a NTFS (possibly FAT32 as well, haven't tested this) USB hard drive plugged in, it automatically gets added to fstab; as a consequence, any drive that thunar attempts to auto-mount as that device (e.g. sdb1) results in a "Failed to mount" dialog; "ntfs-3g-mount: user has no write access to mountpoint /media/usb0" (or whatever mountpoint it was assigned in fstab).

The fix?  Just remove the offending line from /etc/fstab.  No need to even logout!

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Re: NTFS USB HD and fresh Statler install

If installing CB from USB - would that have the same result?

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Re: NTFS USB HD and fresh Statler install

Yup, I always install from USB.  (I've noticed that the install drive also appears in /etc/fstab, but is commented out.)

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Re: NTFS USB HD and fresh Statler install

@pvsage ... many thanks for this post, as a linux newbie I was not sure how to fix this,  I could see at boot that ntfs-3g threw an error but could catch what it was and couldn't find any reference in any logs.

After updating fstab it works like a charm big_smile

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Re: NTFS USB HD and fresh Statler install

How about editing /etc/fuse.conf and removing the comment before

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Re: NTFS USB HD and fresh Statler install

Thanks for the solution, had a 2 TB external that I somehow could access in the beginning to copy files from my previous systems, but then was unable to mount.