Cannot mount a data harddrive, Or can I?

[jlittle]

What do I do with /etc/fstab?

One approach would be with dolphin, navigate to /etc and open fstab. It should open with kate (or possibly some other editor app if you've set it up). Select all, and copy. Start a reply in this thread, and paste. Select the whole message, and press the # button in the tool bar, to get the code tags.

[oshunluvr]

You don't have to use the terminal to edit any file anymore. Just use Kate. When it's time to save your edits, it will ask for a sudo password.

However, you can use KDE Partition Manager and select a partition, choose "Edit Mount Point", and fill in the blanks. It will even create the mount folder for you and put it all in /etc/fstab.

I do highly recommend opening up /etc/fstab and looking at it's contents. Then searching the web for information about what's in there. Mostly, you'll want to learn about the various mount "options" because there are so many. Some can increase performance, add features, make it easier to access mounts, etc. A typo or wrong option can leave you system unbootable as well, so use caution if you edit fstab manually. Typos can be very problematic.

[Gromm]

One approach would be with dolphin, navigate to /etc and open fstab. It should open with kate (or possibly some other editor app if you've set it up). Select all, and copy. Start a reply in this thread, and paste. Select the whole message, and press the # button in the tool bar, to get the code tags.

# /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>
UUID=cadebedd-1c64-4d4f-b1f7-4002ee2c9f16 /              ext4    defaults   0 1
/swapfile                                 swap           swap    defaults   0 0

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Here goes, and my thanks.

[skyfishgoo]

always use this after saving changes to fstab but BEFORE you reboot

sudo findmnt --verify --verbose​

[Gromm]

Little update so far: It is possible to mount the HD/partition by clicking on "mount" in the KDE partition manager.... Simply clicking on it in Dolphin is still not possible.

[Gromm]

You don't have to use the terminal to edit any file anymore. Just use Kate. When it's time to save your edits, it will ask for a sudo password.

However, you can use KDE Partition Manager and select a partition, choose "Edit Mount Point", and fill in the blanks. It will even create the mount folder for you and put it all in /etc/fstab.

I do highly recommend opening up /etc/fstab and looking at it's contents. Then searching the web for information about what's in there. Mostly, you'll want to learn about the various mount "options" because there are so many. Some can increase performance, add features, make it easier to access mounts, etc. A typo or wrong option can leave you system unbootable as well, so use caution if you edit fstab manually. Typos can be very problematic.

When I want to edit the mount point, how do I choose/decide the path? That might still solve the problem.

[Gromm]

Well good people,

The problem is finally solved. Here is what I did: I put another harddrive in the pc, formatted it to EXT4, copied the data from the NTFS to the new EXT4 drive. Formatted the NTFS to EXT4, problem solved.
I do believe that linux Mint is perhaps more adapted to usage of NTFS drives since in the past a lot of Mint installations ran on this machine and I never had this problem with them. Never had any problems in this matter on my main Kubuntu machine at home. However, that is a dual boot with windows.

[XandarKablandar]

Glad you got it. The issue was indicated in the pop-up message in Dolphin. It was saying essentially, "there's something wrong with this disk that's preventing us from mounting it". Ideally, there should be an option to run a check/fix on it, which can be done from the command line.

[skyfishgoo]

just cut and paste the contents here in between

code

tags ... looks like # in the menu bar above.