For the past 3 days (after an update) my Debian Jessie refuses to mount NTFS disks. I reinstalled libfuse2 and ntfs-3g, yet I get the same Input/output error
I tried the same disks under Windows 7 and OSX Mavericks (using ntfs-3g) and they work fine. I purged ntfs-3g and reinstalled, and still the same problem.
The disks will sometimes mount and sometimes won't mount. If they do mount, I am sometimes able to go into the mount directory, whereas some other times, I get a bash error Input/output error for the mount directory. The times I am able to go into the mount directory, when I try an ls -l, I see tons of question marks, instead of file/dir attributes.
I have tried ntfsfix and chkdisk under windows, and they both reported no problems, it is only under this Jessie install that all of a sudden I can't mount them properly.
dmesg has no usefull info other than the external disk being attached:
[12816.210969] scsi 20:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate External SG16 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[12816.211825] sd 20:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
[12816.212542] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdg] 732566642 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
[12816.213591] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
[12816.213595] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: bf 00 00 00
[12816.214782] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdg] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[12816.215561] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdg] 732566642 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
[12816.242055] sdg: sdg1 sdg2
[12816.243244] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdg] 732566642 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
[12816.246031] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI disk
parted /dev/sdg 'print'
Model: Seagate External (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdg: 3001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 258kB 1038GB 1038GB primary
2 1038GB 3001GB 1962GB primary
fdisk -l /dev/sdg
Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)
Disk /dev/sdg: 3000.6 GB, 3000592965632 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 45600 cylinders, total 732566642 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00090a06
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdg1 63 253473569 1013894028 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdg2 253473792 732566527 1916370944 83 Linux
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdg1 /media/Downloads
ntfs-3g-mount: failed to access mountpoint /media/Downloads: Input/output error
If I manage to mount it via
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdg1 /media/Downloads
Once I cd into it:
cd media/Downloads
root@athena:/media/Downloads# ls -l
ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
total 0
root@athena:/media/Downloads#
mount however, says:
/dev/sdf1 on /media/Downloads type fuseblk (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)
What did I brake?
EDIT
ntfsinfo -m /dev/sdg1
Volume is scheduled for check.
Please boot into Windows TWICE, or use the 'force' option.
NOTE: If you had not scheduled check and last time accessed this volume
using ntfsmount and shutdown system properly, then init scripts in your
distribution are broken. Please report to your distribution developers
(NOT to us!) that init scripts kill ntfsmount or mount.ntfs-fuse during
shutdown instead of proper umount.
Failed to open '/dev/sdg1'.
EDIT#2
ntfsinfo -fm /dev/sdg1
WARNING: Dirty volume mount was forced by the 'force' mount option.
Volume Information
Name of device: /dev/sdg1
Device state: 11
Volume Name:
Volume State: 91
Volume Flags: 0x0001 DIRTY
Volume Version: 3.1
Sector Size: 4096
Cluster Size: 4096
Index Block Size: 4096
Volume Size in Clusters: 253473506
MFT Information
MFT Record Size: 4096
MFT Zone Multiplier: 0
MFT Data Position: 24
MFT Zone Start: 0
MFT Zone End: 31684192
MFT Zone Position: 4
Current Position in First Data Zone: 31684192
Current Position in Second Data Zone: 0
Allocated clusters 145403 (0.1%)
LCN of Data Attribute for FILE_MFT: 4
FILE_MFTMirr Size: 4
LCN of Data Attribute for File_MFTMirr: 126736753
Size of Attribute Definition Table: 2560
Number of Attached Extent Inodes: 0
FILE_Bitmap Information
FILE_Bitmap MFT Record Number: 6
State of FILE_Bitmap Inode: 80
Length of Attribute List: 0
Number of Attached Extent Inodes: 0
FILE_Bitmap Data Attribute Information
Decompressed Runlist: not done yet
Base Inode: 6
Attribute Types: not done yet
Attribute Name Length: 0
Attribute State: 3
Attribute Allocated Size: 31686656
Attribute Data Size: 31684192
Attribute Initialized Size: 31684192
Attribute Compressed Size: 0
Compression Block Size: 0
Compression Block Size Bits: 0
Compression Block Clusters: 0
Free Clusters: 199331046 (78.6%)
I will try mounting it under windows in a few hours (I'm running a check on another disk I don't want to interrupt).
EDIT#3
I went back into windows, and scanned the disks. Windows indeed found problems with one of them, but both were fixed, mountable and browsable.
Yet, under Debian, I still cannot do anything.
I opened Gparted, and interestingly enough, it complains:
Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for ntfs file system support: ntfsprogs / ntfs-3g.
However,
apt-cache policy ntfs-3g
ntfs-3g:
Installed: 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1
Candidate: 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1
Version table:
*** 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1 0
!!! So, have I run into some kind of ntfs-3g bug, or is my system now broken???
Best Answer
It is ntfs-3g bug. Downgrade ntfs-3g and it will work. I had the same problem with
1:2014
version, and no problem with1:2012
version (which in "stable" repository)