Can't Remove Drive

[logan01]

I plugged my external hard drive. Evidently it created 2 drives named New Volume. One is good to go, I can open files from it, etc. The other seems dead and doesn't offer the "safely remove" option. If I left click on it, the following msg appears atop Dolphin:

An error occurred while accessing 'New Volume', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sda6 at /media/richard/New Volume: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dm ask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda6" "/media/richard/New Volume"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda6': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option.

I can remove the "good" one and the "bad" one remains. How do I remove it? Even after I do a hard boot it's still there in Dolphin.

[logan01]

Will this work?

Use umount with Force option. if your device is /dev/sda6, use:
sudo umount -f /dev/sda6

[Al1000]

umount will not do anything, because as the error message in post #1 indicates, the file system is not mounted.

All umount does, is unmount file systems that are mounted.

Dolphin lists both mounted and unmounted file systems (devices).

[logan01]

umount will not do anything, because as the error message in post #1 indicates, the file system is not mounted.

All umount does, is unmount file systems that are mounted.

Dolphin lists both mounted and unmounted file systems (devices).

Is there a way to remove it since I no longer have my external drive (device) hooked to my pc?

[Al1000]

Try deleting the configuration file. A new one should be generated when you start Dolphin.

1) Backup the old file:

cp ~/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc ~/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc.backup

2) Delete the old file:

rm ~/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc

3) Reboot your computer

4) Open Dolphin. If everything works, proceed to the next step:

5) Delete the backup of the old file:

rm ~/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc.backup

That should do the trick.

[logan01]

Did steps 1-4, twice. Did not remove device named New Volume. However, when I left clicked on it, instead of getting that lengthy error msg, it show it contains two folders; $RECYCLE.BIN (underlined) and System Volume Information. I stopped short of step 5.

[Al1000]

Can you post the output of:

sudo fdisk -l

[logan01]

richard@richard-HP-15-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for richard: 


WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.




Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x159542bb


   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1   976773167   488386583+  ee  GPT
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
richard@richard-HP-15-Notebook-PC:~$

[logan01]

Perhaps this is helpful.

[Al1000]

Didn't realise you have GPT. In that case please post the output of:

sudo parted -l

[logan01]

richard@richard-HP-15-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo parted -l
[sudo] password for richard: 
Model: ATA ST500LT012-1DG14 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt


Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  683MB   682MB   ntfs            Basic data partition          hidden, diag
 2      683MB   955MB   273MB   fat32           EFI system partition          boot
 3      955MB   1089MB  134MB                   Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 4      1089MB  319GB   318GB   ntfs            Basic data partition          msftdata
 7      319GB   327GB   8000MB  linux-swap(v1)
 8      327GB   357GB   30.0GB  ext4
 9      357GB   417GB   60.0GB  ext4
 5      477GB   477GB   902MB   ntfs                                          hidden, diag
 6      477GB   500GB   22.6GB  ntfs            Basic data partition          msftdata




richard@richard-HP-15-Notebook-PC:~$

[logan01]

Oh crap. My apologies to all. I found this old thread of mine https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ng-for-Kubuntu and didn't realize I had New Volume from the get go. I hope Al1000 sleeps all day today / tomorrow. Now, I wonder why my external hard drive has that same name. Its always had that name in windows. Can I change its name to avoid confusion? I reckon I'll wait for one of yall's go-aheads before I call this thread solved.

[Al1000]

Well I'm glad you found out what it was. I was beginning to suspect it was an actual partition when it was still there after deleting Dolphin's configuration file. You can see the partitions numbered, 4, 8, 9 and 6 in the output of parted -l, which are the four partitions that are showing up in Dolphin.

Can I change its name to avoid confusion?

Yes, you can change the "label." I usually use GParted for such tasks, and haven't used the partition manager that comes with Kubuntu before. Also, I don't know whether changing the label of a Windows partition would affect Windows, but hopefully someone else does.

[logan01]

Well I'm glad you found out what it was. I was beginning to suspect it was an actual partition when it was still there after deleting Dolphin's configuration file. You can see the partitions numbered, 4, 8, 9 and 6 in the output of parted -l, which are the four partitions that are showing up in Dolphin.



Yes, you can change the "label." I usually use GParted for such tasks, and haven't used the partition manager that comes with Kubuntu before. Also, I don't know whether changing the label of a Windows partition would affect Windows, but hopefully someone else does.

Thanks for all your help.