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I have an ESATA disk with NTFS that works fine on Windows. It is recognized as the /dev/sde device, but no partition is recognized (no /dev/sde1) unless partprobe is run. After this, device /dev/sde1 appears and can be mounted with mount. fdisk does show /dev/sde1 even before partprobe is run.

What could be the reason for this? Are there any workarounds, other than creating a script that runs at startup that partprobe's and mounts it?

Thanks

EDIT (extra info)

/dev/sde1 doesn't exist until I partprobe, so I can't even try to mount it. If I try I get "device does not exist". If I try to mount "sde", I get the error "unknown filesystem type 'isw_raid_member'

This is what I get from parted

Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sde: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 500GB 500GB primary ntfs boot

If there's any additional relevant information to give, please let me know

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I would run a chkdisk on Windows on this HDD prior to trying to mount it on Linux. It sounds like the partition table, or the partition(s), were not properly unmounted at some point in this HDD's life.

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  • Thanks for the reply! I tried it and but found no errors, and the issue remains Commented Jun 8, 2014 at 15:09
  • @Rojo - can you show us the error? Commented Jun 8, 2014 at 15:20
  • Sure. I just edited the question Commented Jun 8, 2014 at 16:54
  • @Rojo - can you try running ntfsfix against this device? See man ntfsfix for info. Commented Jun 8, 2014 at 19:39
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    dmesg | grep /dev/sde doesn't show results but this is not right after booting. I'll try it as soon as I can (in about 12-16hs) and post back Commented Jun 11, 2014 at 11:44

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