Scanning external (NTFS) hard drives with Avast & Ubuntu

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Hi all, new to here (but not new to forums :wink: )

I am no expert with Linux but I am learning.

I got Avast (V 1.3.0) installed and fully updated on my fully up to date Ubuntu box.

Trouble is I cannot get Avast to “see” any external (USB) drives.
They show up in Ubuntu’s “Disk Utilities” as being mounted, and of course I can browse the disks contents, I just cannot figure out how to get Avast to “see” it.

I even tried to put the path in the Avast GUI (/dev/sdb1) but no go.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards to all
John in the N.W. UK

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Isn’t they on the /mnt folder?

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Thanks for the input Tech, though on my machine the /mnt folder is empty.

However, to answer my own question and for the benefit of others, I found it :slight_smile:

It is in the folder named MEDIA that is in the root of the file system.

Avast now “sees” it and scans it just fine :slight_smile:

The Linux learning curve continues…

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Hallo,
don’t mix device (/dev/sdb1) and the path where its filesystem content is mounted (/mnt/whatever probably?). This is the path you should point avast to.

regards,
pc