Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ntfs-3g
When you try to mount a ntfs drive that was not safely removed last time
you'll get the following error:
> Cannot mount volume
> unable to mount the volume
>
> Details:
> $LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0,0) Failed to mount '/dev/hda1/':
> Operation not supported
> Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action:
>
> Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by
> clicking on the 'Safely
> Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows taskbar then shutdown Windows cleanly.
>
> Choice 2: If you don't have Windows then you can use the 'force' option for
> your own responsibility.
> For example type on the command line: mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /media/disk
> -o force or add the
> option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file: /dev/hda1 /media/disk
> ntfs-3g defaults,force 0 0
This is particularly annoying when working with external harddisks which
Ms Windows users often just unplug without properly unmounting. The
thing that suprises me is that both Ms Windows and Apple's OS X do not
complain about this while linux does. To me this does not seem comply
with the "it just works" idea behind the Ubuntu distribution.
Both choices do not offer a real solution: going back to Windows to
cleanly unmount both requires having Windows and if you do, this is not
a user-friendly solution. Adding a line to fstab also is not user-
friendly, it won't work when you're faced with different external drives
all the time and adding a drive to fstab also seems to hinder the
automounting process of GNOME, which again is not user-friendly.
I'm sure there is a risk when ignoring the unclean logfile but to me
this seems like punishing the user after the damage is already done. So
the question of this bug is: how can this be solved? Three solutions I
can think of at this time could be:
1) Fix handeling of unclean logfiles in upstream ntfs-3g. If this was easy I
guess it would already have been done.
2) Removing the unclean logfile check completely from the upstream ntfs-3g
package in a next version so it won't complain and just mount, like Windows and
OS X do.
3) Adding a config file feature to the next version of ntfs-3g that contains a
variable like ignore_unclean_logfile which allows you (or then preferably
enabled by default in the ubuntu package) to set the "force" flag globally in
stead of per-disk.
Hope this is a clear description of my (and many other peoples)
annoyance. I hope this can be solved!
Thanks!
** Affects: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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User-friendly automounting of ntfs partitions with an unclean logfile
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175503
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