FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

max wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> max bianco wrote:
>>> 2008/4/2 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
>>>> max bianco wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am not sure what his fstab should look like but as far as using the
>>>>> mount command I have always found that you have to be root or have
>>>>> permission explicitly granted. I plug in my external drive and it just
>>>>> automounts for me, i don't remember doing anything special to get this
>>>>> to work, but apparently this was not the case in FC6, i have never
>>>>> used FC6. Hopefully he will  let us know what happened.
>>>>>
>>>>> Max
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>  FC6 would auto mount as well. But if you have an entry in 
>>>> /etc/fstab for
>>>> the device, it will not get auto-mounted.
>>>
>>> shouldn't it mount if the "noauto" is removed from fstab?
>>>
>>> Max
>>>
>> If you remove the noauto, the init scripts will try to mount the 
>> drive. The problem is, if the drive is not plugged in, the system will 
>> not be able to mount it, and may not boot. (It is a USB drive.) If 
>> there is an entry in /etc/fstab, then the hotplug auto-mounting will 
>> not work.
> Why would the box fail to boot? Assuming the drive does not contain any 
> system files needed at startup shouldn't it just make a note of the 
> missing drive in a log and keep going. You hinted at something related 
> to it being a USB drive.....
> 
The OP said it was a USB drive. The problem is that the system has 
no way of knowing what is on the drive, and will cause the system to 
boot into the single user mode so you can fix the problem if the 
drive is not there.
>>
>> If I remember correctly, auto-mounting in FC6 works better if the 
>> partition has a name. If the NTFS partition was names SHARED, then the 
>> drive partition would get mounted on /media/SHARED. This also works in 
>> later versions. Changing the permissions and mount options different 
>> than using fstab, and involves learning a different set of rules. But 
>> tools are being developed to make it easier.
> 
> If FC6 supports automounting the drive then why was an entry in fstab 
> needed in the first place?
> Am i missing something that should be obvious here?
> 
> Max
> 
Because options other then the default ones are wanted. The 
auto-mounting in FC6 does not support that very well. Even changing 
the mount point so it isn't off of /media can be a problem. I don't 
remember off hand how you did that in FC6. (Was FC6 using HAL?)

Mikkel
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