Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Automounting error on Ubuntu:

 When you have dual boot machine, say windows and ubuntu. If you are currently running windows and hibernated it. Now, your machine is off and you decided to boot ubuntu. When ubuntu is started, now if you try to mount the windows drives, it will pop out error similar to the one mentioned below-
 
Mounting exited with exit code 14:windows is hibernated, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sde2':Operation not permitted. The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown windows properly or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option, or mount the volume read-write with the 'remove_hiberfile' mount option. For example type in command line:  

Solution: Run the command similar to the one written below-
$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile  /dev/sda1   /media/akash

where, /dev/sda1 is windows partition

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