I have a system which previously ran Debian Wheezy, I recentl changed the sources.list to point at jessie instead of
wheezy and ran and update, upgrade & dist-upgrade.
This appeared to work fine, however in the last week (I have been regularly updating), mounting of the 2TB NTFS parition
seems to have become unstable. It may have been related to the addition of a second NTFS drive via USB, but the problem
persisted after this drive was removed.
I would start the machine, log into KDE and from Dolphin could see the 2TB drive marked as mounted, if I clicked the
Dolphin shortcut I would be presented with an empty directory. I was unable to navigate to the mounted point (in this
case /mnt/Drives/sda1) as the last folder (sda1) did not exist.
Opening a terminal window (bash) and using su to gain root access the last folder did appear to exist, however it seemed
to be acting very strange, sda1 is the only folder within the Drives directory. Entering 'cd /mnt/Drives/' and pushing
tab would generally complete to 'cd /mnt/Drives/sda1', but not always, sometimes the message "Input/Output Error" would
appear in bash. When it did complete I found anouther error, when I double pressed tab I would expect it to show me the
directories on the drive ~50% of the time it would, the other times it would repeat the mount point producing bash
output like so 'cd /mnt/Drives/sda1 sda1' once this occurred a double tab press would simply result in adding more mount
point names to the string e.g. 'cd /mnt/Drives/sda1 sda1 sda1'.
Googling 'Input/Output Error', showed a issue with ntfs-3g version 1:2014, recommendation was to roll back to 1:2012, I
added a Wheezy mirror to my sources list and downgraded the ntfs-3g package to 1:2012.1.15AR.5-2.1. After multiple power
cycles, the drive appears to be mounting and functioning correctly.
I've submitted this bug since the bug tracker didn't seem to show this issue against ntfs-3g, I've included my fstab and
system for help. If you need logs please let me know which ones and I will happily uprade the package and produce them
if you can tell me where to get them from.
Fstab
# /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>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=06bfd378-dc1e-4fbd-81cd-079bde366ad7 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=C3C5-6F27 /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=1968867c-8a49-46e9-85d6-821b172f608f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sr1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
UUID=0B840FBF6B60B52A /mnt/Drives/sda1/ ntfs-3g defaults,user,locale=en_US.utf8,exec 2
System
3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
AMD 5350
Asus AM1M-A
8GB DDR3
2TB Green Western Digital Drive - NTFS partition
120GB SSD - ext4
DVD drive
Kind Regards
Stephen