JustKev85 Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Hi I'm new to unRAID and new to the forum, I'm just beginning to explore the possibilities of unRAID and it's very exciting! However just encountering a few small bugs that I'm not sure how to get past. A problem I'm having is that I'm unable to write to my unassigned devices that're formatted as NTFS. They're just USB Hard Drives I wish to mount separately from my array. I'm able to read from it no problem, but writing and deleting files on the drives via network shares or Krusader proves that I lack the write permission. I tried searching and seems that there's a "ntfs-3g" driver thing? That was a really old post and config seems quite complex. Please let me know how I should diagnose this. Appreciate the help! unRAID OS version 6.5.3. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 You should be able to write to any unassigned ntfs device, it would be better to post on the UD thread and make sure you post your diagnostics. Quote Link to comment
JustKev85 Posted August 17, 2018 Author Share Posted August 17, 2018 Yes I know I should be, but I can't and that's why I'm trying to find out why. I'm unaware that there's a Unassigned Devices thread (can't find it). If there is admin please move me there. Attached my diagnostic s - homeserver-diagnostics-20180817-1305.zip Thanks Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 read/write mount failed, so it was then mounted read only: Aug 15 16:56:46 HomeServer unassigned.devices: Mount drive command: /sbin/mount -t ntfs -o auto,async,noatime,nodiratime,nodev,nosuid,umask=000 '/dev/sde2' '/mnt/disks/Kevin' Aug 15 16:56:46 HomeServer unassigned.devices: Mount failed with error: ntfs-3g-mount: mount failed: Device or resource busy Aug 15 16:56:46 HomeServer unassigned.devices: Mounting ntfs drive read only. Aug 15 16:56:46 HomeServer unassigned.devices: Mount drive ro command: /sbin/mount -t ntfs -ro auto,async,noatime,nodiratime,nodev,nosuid,umask=000 '/dev/sde2' '/mnt/disks/Kevin' 3 minutes ago, JustKev85 said: I'm unaware that there's a Unassigned Devices thread (can't find it) Quote Link to comment
JustKev85 Posted August 17, 2018 Author Share Posted August 17, 2018 Thanks! How do I read/write mount it? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 3 hours ago, JustKev85 said: I'm unaware that there's a Unassigned Devices thread (can't find it). For future reference, you can always get to the support thread for any addon (plugin or docker) from its support link Community Applications. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Looks like something else was using the disk, but I don't have experience with using ntfs disks with unRAID, try again after rebooting and if the same happens post on the UD thread. Quote Link to comment
JustKev85 Posted August 18, 2018 Author Share Posted August 18, 2018 10 hours ago, trurl said: For future reference, you can always get to the support thread for any addon (plugin or docker) from its support link Community Applications. Oh that is perfect, very convenient. Will do that thanks! And thanks Johnnie, I'll try that! Quote Link to comment
etegration Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 On 8/18/2018 at 1:07 AM, JustKev85 said: Yes I know I should be, but I can't and that's why I'm trying to find out why. I'm unaware that there's a Unassigned Devices thread (can't find it). If there is admin please move me there. Attached my diagnostic s - homeserver-diagnostics-20180817-1305.zip 83.96 kB · 4 downloads Thanks this came up higher when trying to google the same issue. any massive thread is useless when trying to search for one answer. 1 Quote Link to comment
DesertCookie Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) How I just solves this issue: I first tried using Unassigned Devices (Plus) which did not mount in Read-Write mode. Looking at the Disk Log Information on the Main tab it told me: ntfs-3g[60028]: Mounted /dev/sdf1 (Read-Only, label "MY-LABEL", NTFS 3.1) Attempting to manually mount the partition following this guide I was able to get some more information on why RW failed and it defaulted to Read-Only: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Falling back to read-only mount because the NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting.) Following a suggestion from here I attempted to repair the file system using ntfsfix. Using it looked like this in my case: root@MYSERVER: ~# ntfsfix /dev/sdc1 Mounting volume... The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. FAILED Attempting to correct errors... Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr... Reading $MFT... OK Reading $MFTMirr... OK Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully. Setting required flags on partition... OK Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK Checking the alternate boot sector... OK NTFS volume version is 3.1. NTFS partition /dev/sdc1 was processed successfully. After that I could successfully mount the partition with Unassigned Devices. Hope this helps anyone finding this in the future. Edited February 15 by DesertCookie typo 2 1 Quote Link to comment
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