FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 3 00:56:21 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 18:22 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >
> > I have an external USB drive permanently attached. If for some reason
> > it's turned off, the boot process will log some errors and continue.
> > This is my fstab line:
> >
> > LABEL=/xtra /xtra ext3 defaults 1 2
> >
> > Note that it's ext3. ntfs-3g via FUSE may complicate things, I don't
> > know.
> >
> It could also be that my experience is out of date. I have not tried
> this since I was bitten by it on a system I was troubleshooting. Or
> it could be that using the LABEL=<label> form is more tolerant then
> the <device> form. I guess I need to do some experimenting when I
> have time.
The LABEL=<label> form is to guarantee that the correct device will be
mounted. /dev/<whatever> is unreliable for USB because devices can come
online in random order.
poc
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