Cannot mount drives and partitions--Solved

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Okay -- I'm not sure how this happened, but you somehow ended up with an entry in /etc/fstab that is for auto-mounting an NTFS partition on every boot-up.  It wants to mount the partition at /home/kathy/ntfsfiles.  According to what you've said and your other partition output, there is no existing NTFS partition to be mounted.  So, I think your problem will disappear if you just delete that line in the /etc/fstab file.

However, you do have the mount point /home/kathy/ntfsfiles in your file system and that normally wouldn't be there unless you or the installer (?) did so on purpose.  Since I'm fairly sure YOU didn't do that (because it involves manually performing steps that you would remember doing), the installer must have.  Why?  I have no clue.  Maybe you happened to have something holding Windows files connected to computer during installation and it made an entry for it.  (Just a wild guess!  I really have no idea how that happened.)

Let's first get rid of the unneeded fstab entry.

*  Open a terminal and type this command to open the file in a text editor:

Code:

gksu leafpad /etc/fstab

*  Scroll down and delete this:

Code:

UUID=0463741f-a838-40c8-b40f-3dbb7f988e29 /home/kathy/ntfsfiles ntfs defaults,umask=007,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

*  Your file should now look like this:

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=17a13c75-cd5c-4ca0-9e58-060dde4771b4 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=e0184c41-8d40-4684-bf4d-fcb8c9489ee5 none            swap    sw              0       0

*  Save the file, then close the text editor.

*  Close the terminal

*  Reboot the computer to see if the error message goes away.

If it's fine now, good.  Now let's find out if any files are in that NTFS directory you have.  Open a terminal and enter this command to make you the owner of that directory and everything under it:

Code:

sudo chown -R kathy: /home/kathy/ntfsfiles

Check to make sure that worked:

Code:

ls -l /home/kathy

You should now see "kathy kathy" on the line for ntfsfiles instead of "root root".

Close terminal and open your Home folder with the GUI file manager.  Now you should be able to access that ntfsfiles directory and see what's in it.  (Maybe some of your old Windows files?  I don't know.)  If nothing is in there, or nothing you want to keep, then just delete it.