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Recently, one of my desktops seems to have developed a problem with the fstab and mounting USB drives. The specific error I receive is...

Unable to mount TRAVELDRIVE
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE
library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated
FUSE support and make it setuid root. Please see more information at
http://tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#unprivileged

The contents of my fstab are...

/etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

proc                                       /proc           proc     nodev,noexec,nosuid                    0  0  
#Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=7e3431cd-522f-4e35-b286-4300fa702d4a  /               ext4     errors=remount-ro                      0  1  
#Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=60684D08684CDE82                      /media/Archive  ntfs-3g  defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8            0  0  
#Entry for /dev/sdc5 :
UUID=cd166221-4b1d-40f7-b9de-785208990587  none            swap     sw                                     0  0  
/dev/sdd1                                  /media/sdd1     ntfs     nls=iso8859-1,ro,users,umask=000,user  0  0  
/dev/sdd5                                  /media/PS3 (fat32)  vfat     users,user                   0  0  

/dev/sdd5                                  /media/sdd5     vfat     uid=m3talhead,users,user               0  0  

I'm guessing its a problem with the duplicate /dev/sdd5 entries (?), but being the *nix noob I am, I'm not certain.

What am I missing? Any assist is greatly appreciated!

user107646
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You should not have entries in /etc/fstab for removable media; remove them.

The file fstab contains descriptive information about the various file systems. fstab is only read by programs, and not written; it is the duty of the system administrator to properly create and maintain this file.

Raja G
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