I just did an upgrade, and though I've now switched to experimenting with ntfs-3g, the experimental driver which will be merged into ntfs-progs, the problem is the same. What's interesting is, that once I restarted after the upgrade (which included a new kernel), the HAL demon failed to start. All the NTFS partitions showed up on the Deskop and in Places. But after trying sudo dpkg --configure -a and restarting to get HAL working, the next time hald did start and the NTFS partitions had disappeared from the Desktop and places. Places->Computer shows them, but display the above symptom: mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda8 is already mounted on /media/data2
mount failed the partitions are indeed mounted and accessible, but Gnome/HALd doesn't know it. It is being discussed here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009 -- hal does not recognize NTFS-FUSE mounted devices as mounted https://launchpad.net/bugs/35354 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
