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«unable to mount location «while click on my 750gb hdd linux mint

I cannot enter in my hard drive in mint Linux. whenever I click on my hard drive icon in computer, it shows the error message : unable to mount location , please help me.

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asked Jun 12, 2015 at 14:14
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Try the following, assuming your first partition on your hard drive corresponds to /dev/sdb1

sudo mkdir /xyz sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /xyz

The folder /xyz should be your hdd’s mount point.

answered Jun 12, 2015 at 14:19
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[SOLVED] «Unable to mount location — can’t mount file»

Post by wrahim » Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:17 am

I have tried to fix this on my own by looking for information online, but I would like to solve this without losing all my data from my 1 TB external harddrive.

Problem: upon connecting external hdd, you can hear the usb device connect sound. However trying to get inside it results in «Unable to mount location — can’t mount file» error.

I have not done much, but when in terminal these are the results of the following commands:

wrahim@LExa02 ~ $ sudo fdisk -l [sudo] password for wrahim: Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0005e980 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 217890815 108944384 83 Linux /dev/sda2 217892862 234440703 8273921 5 Extended /dev/sda5 217892864 234440703 8273920 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 81 heads, 63 sectors/track, 382818 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000098ec Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2048 1953525167 976761560 83 Linux

Trying to mount in terminal:

wrahim@LExa02 ~ $ mount /dev/sdb1/ mount: can't find /dev/sdb1/ in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Does this have anything to do with the fact that both disks (my primary internal 120GB ssd and the external 1TB) have the same Id (/dev/sda1/ and /dev/sdb1 have the same Id)?

I have seen one solution to a very similar problem, but the person ended up using gparted to format the drive. I can NOT do this, I have too much data, that I am not willing to let go of yet. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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Can’t access omv from Linux desktop (Unable to mount location)

I can access OMV6 from my Win11 box no problem but can’t access it from my Linux Mint box. I get «Unable to mount location», and below that «Failed to retrieve share list from server: Invalid argument». Please. How can i fix this? Linux Mint, Win11, and OMV box all have modern Ryzen cpus and 32GB ram. OMV box has 500GB SSD as boot drive and 2 2TB SSDs for storage, not in a RAID configuration.

garwhi Mar 28th 2023

Changed the title of the thread from “Can’t access omv from Linux desktop (Unable to mount locatio)” to “Can’t access omv from Linux desktop (Unable to mount location)”.

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You don’t say what and how you are sharing things on OMV.

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OMV AMD64 6.x on headless Chenbro NR12000 1U 1x 8m Quad Core E3-1220 3.1GHz 32GB ECC RAM.

so please show your mount command or show your fstab

 cat /etc/fstab

In my opinion it is easier to connect two Linux computer with NFS not Samba.

Sorry about that. I was talking about Samba shares. I notice in omv6. under Users, gary, the password i initially entered there does not show up any more. Under OMV5 it does. I wonder if it’s a password issue preventing me from accessing the server from my Linux box. It certainly is working fine when i access it from Windows. I’ve copied almost a terabyte of data from omb5 to omb6 without a hitch using Total Commander under Windows.. I just can’t gain access to the server from Linux. Very frustrating. I’ve been trying to find the answer to my problem for days now.

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Edited once, last by garwhi ( Mar 29th 2023 ).

I’m sorry there are some misunderstandings. Please show the mount command or the fstab from your mint-system.

And no screenshots. This is all text. Use your mouse, copy / paste and mark it as code ««.

Mar 29th 2023

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«Failed to retrieve share list from server: Invalid argument». Please. How can i fix this?

Open a terminal on Mint and run sudo apt install cifs-utils

Raid is not a backup! Would you go skydiving without a parachute?

OMV 6x amd64 running on an HP N54L Microserver

Here’s my fstab from my Mint box.

# /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).

# / was on /dev/nvme0n1p2 during installation

UUID=563e8a7b-0468-4bc0-8a29-d61d8fc81b20 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation

UUID=D782-E8B7 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1

 /swapfile none swap sw 0 0

On entering ‘sudo apt install cifs-utils’ i already have the latest version. And now i can’t access omv6 from my Windows box, although i could yesterday. It is complaining about wrong credentials. But i have no problem accessing omv5, from both my Mint box and my Windows box.. I certainly don’t want to disconnect omv5 before i’m sure omv6 is working properly. I have nothing under /media/gary. It’s an empty folder.

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Mar 29th 2023

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On entering ‘sudo apt install cifs-utils’ i already have the latest version

If you have that on Mint then you should not get this message -> Failed to retrieve share list from server: Invalid argument

Are all the machines in the same workgroup

Raid is not a backup! Would you go skydiving without a parachute?

OMV 6x amd64 running on an HP N54L Microserver

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`All 3, Win, Mint, and OMB are on the workgroup WORKGROUP. I’m wondering if this has anything to do with 2.5G. I have that speed on all three of the connected machines and am using it. Under File Systems both ssds show as being mounted and referenced. Status for both is Online. Under Shared Folders my Data ssd, when i edit that line show Everyone: read/write under Tags. I have nothing under Tags for my other ssd, Music. I don’t know if that helps any in you guys diagnosing my problem. SMB/CIFS shares show both as Guests allowed under Public. Both have a check mark under Browseable. I don’t know what else to say. I’m now in the process of reinstalling omv6. I’m being asked about a domanin name. The default, as i’m sure you know is local. Should i change that. It says make sure you use the same domain name on all computers. How do i even do that? Please help. Please. I’m at my wit’s end.

Edited 3 times, last by garwhi ( Mar 30th 2023 ).

There is no mounting in your fstab and you haven’t shown us your mount command in Linux Mint. No mounting, no access.

How do you want to reach the connection?

And again, NFS is easier. Please think about it.

I can’t do that now. I tried reinstalling omv6 and as i’m trying to set everything up again i am now getting the message «404 — Not found. The method ‘enumerate’ does not exist for the RPC service ‘Exec'». And now i still see the two drives under Disks. That’s good. But under File Systems, upon hitting the + sign to create and mount my file systems it just shows a blank rectangle. I’m guessing it might have something to do with the aforementioned RPC message. So i tried reinstalling it AGAIN and i still got the 404 message. Would formatting my boot drive get rid of that message? I definitely can’t get it set up the way it is now. Before this latest problem with ‘404’ i did try to install NFS but i got confused and didn’t know how to configure it.

It just seems to get worse. In my attempt to get rid of the 404 error i swapped out my boot drive with another ssd. Reinstalled omv6 now for about the 5th or 6th time. And, no, the 404 error message did not go away. Where is it coming from? I still see my boot drive and my two data disks but i still can’t create and mount a file system. When i click on the + sign, well i explained this earlier. I’ll just include a screen shot. And here’s my mount.

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=15912184k,nr_inodes=3978046,mode=755,inode64)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)

tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=3195692k,mode=755,inode64)

/dev/nvme0n1p2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)

securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64)

tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k,inode64)

cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot)

pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

bpf on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)

systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=29,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=20180)

hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)

mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

none on /run/credentials/systemd-sysusers.service type ramfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)

tmpfs on /run/qemu type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755,inode64)

/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=3195688k,nr_inodes=798922,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64)

gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)

portal on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)

Edited once, last by garwhi ( Mar 30th 2023 ).

I obviously don’t understand the concept of mounting drives. I see nothing in my fstab relating to accessing my omv5. And yet i have no problem accessing it, seemingly without having to mount those drives. So do i need a mount command to access omv6? I guess so, seeing as how i was told no mounting no access. Also i have set up NFS and now accessing it i again get ‘Unable to mount location Permission denied: Perhaps this host is disallowed or a privileged port is needed’. So obviously i’m a noob here. Can you walk me through how to mount the omv6 drives. I thought i had read that it was unwise to edit the fstab file directly. Is that true? So i guess i should create a folder where my omv6 files will be mounted. I’m not sure of the command. I see a lot of confusing info when i google the topic. And, btw, i can now once again copy files, on my Windows box, from my omv5 box to my omv6 box. And when i copy files from omv6 to my NVMe Window boot drive i get 285 MB/sec. Woo hoo. Thank you ssds and 2.5g lan all around.