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I am at my uncle's house and I am trying to get a virus off his windows laptop. The virus is too smart for regular extraction so I made an LM 14 USB boot disk. My hope is to run a linux-based antivirus to clean up the windows hard drive.

In Mint, when I double click the windows drive, i get an error message:

Unable to mount location Adding read ACL for uid 999 to `/media/mint' failed: Operation not supported

I would be so grateful if someone could help me!

Create the directory first: Then take possession of "mint":

Thank you for your post. It does solve the problem of not being able to browse my NTFS hard disks. But I am curious. I am a newbie to Linux and have been looking at different distributions of Linux since the release of Windows 8 which I do not like. It seems unecessary to issue this command in Ubuntu to see NTFS partitions. Did the Linux Mint distributors make this terminal command necessary on purpose, or is this some sort of bug that was overlooked? I doubt my own suggestion that this is any kind of bug but who knows? Its probably more related to security. But since Ubuntu has no problem with my NTFS disks out-of-the-box and Mint does it makes me wonder. I guess that's why I ask. Thanks for the help.

Oddly enough you have the cause and affect reversed. It's Ubuntu where the problem exists and only shows up in Mint because Mint is derived from Ubuntu.

Want proof? Here is the original Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1048059
Like most bugs it will not happen to everyone and not all the time.

Once upon a time during the Golden Age of Linux all of these partitions that are not in fstab would mount to /media/LABEL. If they happen to be formatted in NTFS or FAT32 they would mount with the owner = the user that mounted it. Someone decided to change this and have it mount to /media/$USER/LABEL and instead of a simple ownership scheme like they had before they decided to use ACL's ( Access Control Lists ) because it's more complicated to do it that way and as it turned out more error prone.

It boils down to a lack of adult supervision and proper integration testing of new software.

@altair4 - thanx! worked perfectly for me
LM 14 flash drive live disk

This worked for me.
Thank you

altair4 wrote:Oddly enough you have the cause and affect reversed. It's Ubuntu where the problem exists and only shows up in Mint because Mint is derived from Ubuntu.

Want proof? Here is the original Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1048059
Like most bugs it will not happen to everyone and not all the time.

Once upon a time during the Golden Age of Linux all of these partitions that are not in fstab would mount to /media/LABEL. If they happen to be formatted in NTFS or FAT32 they would mount with the owner = the user that mounted it. Someone decided to change this and have it mount to /media/$USER/LABEL and instead of a simple ownership scheme like they had before they decided to use ACL's ( Access Control Lists ) because it's more complicated to do it that way and as it turned out more error prone.

It boils down to a lack of adult supervision and proper integration testing of new software.

I just installed Linut Mint 16 on a new PC and ran into this problem, and is one the things that is contrary to making Linux more user friendly.

And afer creating the directory in Terminal, running sudo chown mint:mint /media/mint results in "invalid user; 'mini:mint.'

Linux is installed on a partition of a HD (Disk /dev/sda: 82.0 GB) that has W/8 preview on the other partition (. Disk /dev/sdb: 16.1 GB), and which i wanted to delete.

I can't believe this is still an issue.

Anyway, the mount point in question is /media/$USER where $USER is your login user name not "mint". "mint" in the previous posts was based on how the OP created his user name.

altair4 wrote:I can't believe this is still an issue.

Anyway, the mount point in question is /media/$USER where $USER is your login user name not "mint". "mint" in the previous posts was based on how the OP created his user name.

Apparently i am not understanding this.

I tried to created a directory using sudo mkdir /media/username (username being my login) and it said it already existed. So i tried sudo chown mint:mint /media/username, which resulted in chown: invalid user

Can you tell me what to provide? Thanks

Everything about this post concerns fixing this error message:

Unable to mount location Adding read ACL for uid 999 to `/media/mint' failed: Operation not supported

Where "mint" is whatever your login user name happens to be.

If you never got that error message then you should start a new topic.

daniel1212 wrote: Linux is installed on a partition of a HD (Disk /dev/sda: 82.0 GB) that has W/8 preview on the other partition (. Disk /dev/sdb: 16.1 GB), and which i wanted to delete.

Correction: The other partition that i want to wipe is not /dev/sdb, but a partition of the sda disk Mint is on (Maxtor 6L080M0), and the icon is on the desktop, but i do not know what ID Linux gives it.

altair4 wrote:Everything about this post concerns fixing this error message:

Unable to mount location Adding read ACL for uid 999 to `/media/mint' failed: Operation not supported

Where "mint" is whatever your login user name happens to be.

If you never got that error message then you should start a new topic.

I checked many threads and saw no one size fits all, and among other things, since neither of my printers installed (hangs or not listed), i think i will try a different distro. Thanks.