I will admit this might be a bit complicated and maybe not the best method so if you have a better solution let me know...

I have a 'server' that I put lubuntu 14.4 on. I am attempting to attach an external hdd formatted to ext3 to the folder /home/external so that my ftp users are able to get to the files on it without leaving the /home directory (to which I have them 'chained' / chrooted).

The hdd will mount just fine (no errors) with the automatic mount options. but every time I try to change the mount point to something other than /media//external I get:

```
Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sdd1: Command-line `mount "/mnt/
external"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, 
bad superblock on /dev/sdd1
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so
   (udisks-error-quark, 0)

```

As far as I can tell it does not matter where I try to mount it even tried /mnt/external with same results.

Output of dmesg | tail (before mount changes):

```
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page found
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdd: sdd1
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
EXT4-fs (sdd1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem
EXT4-fs (sdd1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

```

Output of dmesg | tail (after mount changes):

```
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page found
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdd: sdd1
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
EXT4-fs (sdd1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem
EXT4-fs (sdd1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
EXT4-fs (sdd1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value

```