I am having problems to mount a HDD in a Raspberry Pi 2 (Raspbian Wheezy).

At boot this failure msg :

Mounting local filesystems...ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sda1': No such file or directory

In console (terminal mode) sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/SAMSUNG ... works perfectly.

I have this fstab :

/dev/sda1 /media/SAMSUNG ntfs-3g defaults,noatime 0 0

Note: I some variants tested I changed /dev/sda1 for the UUID the result is the same "Failed to access ..."

Thanks in advance.

I have 2 reports :
Volume Information
Name of device: /dev/sda1
Device state: 11
Volume Name: SAMSUNG
Volume State: 27
Volume Version: 3.1
Sector Size: 512
Cluster Size: 4096
Index Block Size: 4096
Volume Size in Clusters: 488378008
MFT Information
MFT Record Size: 1024
MFT Zone Multiplier: 0
MFT Data Position: 24
MFT Zone Start: 786432
MFT Zone End: 61833683
MFT Zone Position: 786432
Current Position in First Data Zone: 61833683
Current Position in Second Data Zone: 0
LCN of Data Attribute for FILE_MFT: 786432
FILE_MFTMirr Size: 4
LCN of Data Attribute for File_MFTMirr: 244189004
Size of Attribute Definition Table: 2560
FILE_Bitmap Information
FILE_Bitmap MFT Record Number: 6
State of FILE_Bitmap Inode: 80
Length of Attribute List: 0
Attribute List: (null)
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: 61050880
Attribute Data Size: 61047256
Attribute Initialized Size: 61047256
Attribute Compressed Size: 0
Compression Block Size: 0
Compression Block Size Bits: 0
Compression Block Clusters: 0

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Upd. Seq. Array Count: 3 (0x3)
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LogFile Seq. Number: 0x20013b7
MFT Record Seq. Numb.: 4 (0x4)
Number of Hard Links: 1 (0x1)
Attribute Offset: 56 (0x38)
MFT Record Flags: IN_USE
Bytes Used: 464 (0x1d0) bytes
Bytes Allocated: 1024 (0x400) bytes
Next Attribute Instance: 5 (0x5)
MFT Padding: 00 00
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Attribute length: 72 (0x48)
Resident: Yes
Name length: 0 (0x0)
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Attribute flags: 0x0000
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Data size: 48 (0x30)
Data offset: 24 (0x18)
Resident flags: 0x00
ReservedR: 0 (0x0)
File Creation Time: Fri Oct 25 06:39:30 2013 UTC
File Altered Time: Fri Oct 25 06:39:30 2013 UTC
MFT Changed Time: Fri Oct 25 06:39:30 2013 UTC
Last Accessed Time: Fri Oct 25 06:39:30 2013 UTC
File attributes: HIDDEN SYSTEM (0x00000000)
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Attribute length: 112 (0x70)
Resident: Yes
Name length: 0 (0x0)
Name offset: 24 (0x18)
Attribute flags: 0x0000
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Resident flags: 0x01
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Parent directory: 5 (0x5)
File Creation Time: Fri Oct 25 06:39:30 2013 UTC
File Altered Time: Fri Oct 25 06:39:30 2013 UTC
MFT Changed Time: Fri Oct 25 06:39:30 2013 UTC
Last Accessed Time: Fri Oct 25 06:39:30 2013 UTC
Allocated Size: 36864 (0x9000)
Data Size: 36000 (0x8ca0)
Filename Length: 8 (0x8)
File attributes: HIDDEN SYSTEM (0x00000000)
Namespace: Win32 & DOS
Filename: '$AttrDef'
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Attribute length: 144 (0x90)
Resident: Yes
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Name offset: 24 (0x18)
Attribute flags: 0x0000
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Data offset: 24 (0x18)
Resident flags: 0x00
ReservedR: 0 (0x0)
Revision: 1
Control: 0x8004
Owner SID: S-1-5-21-1409082233-602609370-839522115-500
Group SID: S-1-5-32-544
System ACL: missing
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ACE: type:allow flags:0x0 access:0x120089
SID: S-1-5-18
ACE: type:allow flags:0x0 access:0x120089
SID: S-1-5-32-544
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Attribute length: 72 (0x48)
Resident: No
Name length: 0 (0x0)
Name offset: 0 (0x0)
Attribute flags: 0x0000
Attribute instance: 4 (0x4)
Lowest VCN 0 (0x0)
Highest VCN: 0 (0x0)
Mapping pairs offset: 64 (0x40)
Compression unit: 0 (0x0)
Data size: 2560 (0xa00)
Allocated size: 4096 (0x1000)
Initialized size: 2560 (0xa00)
Runlist: VCN LCN Length
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End of inode reached
Total runs: 1 (fragments: 1)

Hi,


If you can mount from console, then ntfs-3g and its dependencies are correctly installed. Also the partition is in a valid state.

Systems using systemd start modules and drivers in parallel. Maybe /dev/sda1 is not yet created when mounting from fstab. Are there other partitions from /dev/sda mounted from fstab ?

You may (at least temporarily) insert the mount command in a startup script (usually in /etc/rc.d/rc.local).

Regards

Jean-Pierre

Hi Jean Pierre

I am new in Linux not Linux especific, in Raspbian (Wheezy)

This is my fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 2
/dev/sda1 /media/SAMSUNG ntfs-3g defaults,noatime 0 0

So that my only partition in this HDD is sda1.
I have the boot report. If you saw it Could help to identify if the problem is sda1 not created at ntfs-3g run?

Thanks for your help

The problem seems to be SO ... and the solution change to Jessie version. I will test and then comment.

Wheezy mount in parallel so fstab reach ntfs-3g line before device were available ... solution a rootdelay=5 in this file /boot/cmdline.txt