fstab can't mount a particular partition!!

Paci · 2008-05-05 10:53:30

Hi all!! This is my 1st post on the Arch forums and my 2nd much more successful foray into Arch Linux.

Alas, not all things are perfect. More to the point, I'm unable to get fstab to correctly mount one of my ntfs drives. Here's my fstab:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
UUID=345d8b40-7df1-4181-8f05-8b5a5e723ed5 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=eccd251d-8731-4a30-8dca-7008b85cb321 / jfs defaults 0 1
UUID=982690952690764A /mnt/tama ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
#UUID=00AE40670B81A404
#/dev/sdb2 /mnt/neko ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

I've tried mounting by "/dev/sdb2" and by its UUID (right above /dev/sdb2) to no avail. I'd also mention that it mounts fine after boot-up and log-in. However, my 1st NTFS drive mounts perfectly as you can see above. Another thing to take note is that when I attempt to mount this 2nd NTFS drive (by fstab), a somewhat long message pops up during boot, BUT goes by too fast for me to read.

If anyone can put me on the right track, I'd be very grateful.

Last edited by Paci (2008-05-05 11:03:10)

tj · 2008-05-05 12:50:34

Is this the /etc/fstab that is failing on you or is the version above commented out (# at beginning of the line) deliberately?

Paci · 2008-05-05 13:04:13

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Yes, the above was deliberate. My original tested fstab was was:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
UUID=345d8b40-7df1-4181-8f05-8b5a5e723ed5 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=eccd251d-8731-4a30-8dca-7008b85cb321 / jfs defaults 0 1
UUID=982690952690764A /mnt/tama ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
UUID=00AE40670B81A404 /mnt/neko ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Followed with...

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
UUID=345d8b40-7df1-4181-8f05-8b5a5e723ed5 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=eccd251d-8731-4a30-8dca-7008b85cb321 / jfs defaults 0 1
UUID=982690952690764A /mnt/tama ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /mnt/neko ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

tj · 2008-05-05 13:10:41

OK thanks for the clarification.

So whether using the /dev/sdb2 or UUID in /etc/fstab it won't mount at boot?

1) see anything in dmesg
2) how do you mount /dev/sdb2 after boot?
3) these 2 ntfs partitions, can you tell us anything more about what they do/don't have in common?

Paci · 2008-05-05 13:38:38

1) Don't see much, but here's /var/log/dmesg.log if I overlooked something:

Linux version 2.6.24-ARCH (root@artin) (gcc version 4.3.0 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 30 10:50:22 CEST 2008
Command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/eccd251d-8731-4a30-8dca-7008b85cb321 ro quiet vga=866
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e400 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009e400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fee0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000007fee0000 - 000000007fee3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000007fee3000 - 000000007fef0000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000007fef0000 - 000000007ff00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 158) 0 entries of 256 used
Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 524000) 1 entries of 256 used
end_pfn_map = 1048576
DMI 2.5 present.
ACPI: RSDP 000F7800, 0014 (r0 IntelR)
ACPI: RSDT 7FEE3000, 0034 (r1 IntelR AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
ACPI: FACP 7FEE3080, 0074 (r1 IntelR AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
ACPI: DSDT 7FEE3100, 4D0B (r1 INTELR AWRDACPI     1000 MSFT  3000000)
ACPI: FACS 7FEE0000, 0040
ACPI: MCFG 7FEE7F00, 003C (r1 IntelR AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
ACPI: APIC 7FEE7E40, 0084 (r1 IntelR AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
ACPI: SSDT 7FEE8860, 0380 (r1  PmRef    CpuPm     3000 INTL 20041203)
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 158) 0 entries of 256 used
Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 524000) 1 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             0 ->     4096
  DMA32        4096 ->  1048576
  Normal    1048576 ->  1048576
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->      158
    0:      256 ->   524000
On node 0 totalpages: 523902
  DMA zone: 56 pages used for memmap
  DMA zone: 1369 pages reserved
  DMA zone: 2573 pages, LIFO batch:0
  DMA32 zone: 7108 pages used for memmap
  DMA32 zone: 512796 pages, LIFO batch:31
  Normal zone: 0 pages used for memmap
  Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 (Bootup-CPU)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x03] enabled)
Processor #3
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
Processor #2
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Setting APIC routing to flat
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009e000 - 000000000009f000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 80000000 (gap: 7ff00000:60100000)
SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
PERCPU: Allocating 33200 bytes of per cpu data
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 515369
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/eccd251d-8731-4a30-8dca-7008b85cb321 ro quiet vga=866
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
TSC calibrated against PM_TIMER
time.c: Detected 2799.989 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Checking aperture...
Calgary: detecting Calgary via BIOS EBDA area
Calgary: Unable to locate Rio Grande table in EBDA - bailing!
Memory: 2057036k/2096000k available (2958k kernel code, 38224k reserved, 1092k data, 248k init)
SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5604.13 BogoMIPS (lpj=9337822)
Security Framework initialized
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2)
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Early unpacking initramfs... done
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
APIC timer calibration result 21874908
Detected 21.874 MHz APIC timer.
SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
Booting processor 1/4 APIC 0x3
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5602.36 BogoMIPS (lpj=9333384)
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 3
CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3210  @ 2.13GHz stepping 07
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
Booting processor 2/4 APIC 0x2
Initializing CPU#2
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5602.40 BogoMIPS (lpj=9333441)
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 2
CPU2: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3210  @ 2.13GHz stepping 07
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#2]: passed.
SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
Booting processor 3/4 APIC 0x1
Initializing CPU#3
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5602.33 BogoMIPS (lpj=9333335)
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
CPU3: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3210  @ 2.13GHz stepping 07
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#3]: passed.
Brought up 4 CPUs
net_namespace: 120 bytes
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using MMCONFIG at e0000000 - efffffff
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 0480-04bf claimed by ICH6 GPIO
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX4._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 4 *5 7 9 10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 4 5 7 9 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 4 5 *7 9 10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs *4 5 7 9 10 11 12)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
PCI-GART: No AMD northbridge found.
ACPI: RTC can wake from S4
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
system 00:01: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0x880-0x88f has been reserved
system 00:07: ioport range 0x400-0x4bf could not be reserved
system 00:0a: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xf0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0x7ff00000-0x7fffffff has been reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0x7fee0000-0x7fefffff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0x100000-0x7fedffff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff has been reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xfed14000-0xfed1dfff has been reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xfed20000-0xfed9ffff has been reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xffb00000-0xffb7ffff has been reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xfff00000-0xffffffff has been reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xe0000-0xeffff has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
  IO window: d000-dfff
  MEM window: f8000000-fbffffff
  PREFETCH window: d0000000-dfffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
  IO window: c000-cfff
  MEM window: fde00000-fdefffff
  PREFETCH window: fdb00000-fdbfffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.4
  IO window: b000-bfff
  MEM window: fda00000-fdafffff
  PREFETCH window: fd900000-fd9fffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
  IO window: a000-afff
  MEM window: fdd00000-fddfffff
  PREFETCH window: fdc00000-fdcfffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.4[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 822k freed
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0:pcie03]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie03]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.4:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.4:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.4:pcie03]
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf9000000, mapped to 0xffffc20010100000, using 720k, total 14336k
vesafb: mode is 768x480x8, linelength=768, pages=8
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Pseudocolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=0:0:0:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 96x30
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Linux agpgart interface v0.102
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: module loaded
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 248k freed
libata version 3.00 loaded.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.1[b] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.1 to 64
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:00.1 disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.1[b] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.1 to 64
scsi0 : pata_jmicron
scsi1 : pata_jmicron
ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xbf00 ctl 0xbe00 bmdma 0xbb00 irq 17
ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xbd00 ctl 0xbc00 bmdma 0xbb08 irq 17
ata1.00: ATAPI: SONY    DVD RW AW-Q170A, 1.73, max UDMA/66
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 2
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 3
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66
scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM            SONY     DVD RW AW-Q170A  1.73 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 6 ports 3 Gbps 0x3f impl SATA mode
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq sntf led clo pio slum part 
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
scsi2 : ahci
scsi3 : ahci
scsi4 : ahci
scsi5 : ahci
scsi6 : ahci
scsi7 : ahci
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfdffd000 port 0xfdffd100 irq 19
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfdffd000 port 0xfdffd180 irq 19
ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfdffd000 port 0xfdffd200 irq 19
ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfdffd000 port 0xfdffd280 irq 19
ata7: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfdffd000 port 0xfdffd300 irq 19
ata8: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfdffd000 port 0xfdffd380 irq 19
ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata3.00: ATA-7: WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0, 12.01C01, max UDMA/133
ata3.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata4.00: ATA-7: WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0, 12.01C01, max UDMA/133
ata4.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata8: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD5000AAKS-0 12.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD5000AAKS-0 12.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ahci 0000:03:00.0: AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 2 ports 3 Gbps 0x3 impl SATA mode
ahci 0000:03:00.0: flags: 64bit ncq pm led clo pmp pio slum part 
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
scsi8 : ahci
scsi9 : ahci
ata9: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfdafe000 port 0xfdafe100 irq 16
ata10: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfdafe000 port 0xfdafe180 irq 16
ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata10: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1a.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: irq 16, io base 0x0000ff00
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1a.1[b] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: irq 21, io base 0x0000fe00
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1a.2[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.2: irq 19, io base 0x0000fd00
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 23, io base 0x0000fc00
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[b] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x0000fb00
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000fa00
usb usb6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 6-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1a.7[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 7
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1a.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: irq 18, io mem 0xfdfff000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 7-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 8
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, io mem 0xfdffe000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 8-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 8-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input2
input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-2
input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.1/input/input3
input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-2
rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
rtc0: alarms up to one month
ACPI: SSDT 7FEE7F80, 022A (r1  PmRef  Cpu0Ist     3000 INTL 20041203)
ACPI: SSDT 7FEE8440, 0152 (r1  PmRef  Cpu1Ist     3000 INTL 20041203)
ACPI: SSDT 7FEE85A0, 0152 (r1  PmRef  Cpu2Ist     3000 INTL 20041203)
ACPI: SSDT 7FEE8700, 0152 (r1  PmRef  Cpu3Ist     3000 INTL 20041203)
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
eth0: RTL8169sc/8110sc at 0xffffc2000002c000, 00:50:8d:b2:2b:88, XID 18000000 IRQ 23
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:01.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
eth1: RTL8169sc/8110sc at 0xffffc2000002e000, 00:50:8d:b2:2b:89, XID 18000000 IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/virtual/input/input4
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input5
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI Error (dswstate-0226): No result objects! State=ffff81007e0bec00 [20070126]
ACPI Exception (dsutils-0642): AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE, Missing or null operand [20070126]
ACPI Exception (dsutils-0735): AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE, While creating Arg 1 [20070126]
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ_.THRM._TMP] (Node ffff81007f96da60), AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE
sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:02.0 to 64
input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input6
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[21]  MMIO=[fddfd000-fddfd7ff]  Max Packet=[2048]  IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[b] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  169.12  Thu Feb 14 17:51:09 PST 2008
fuse init (API version 7.9)
Adding 971924k swap on /dev/sda4.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:971924k
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[00508d00009b180a]

2) After boot, I mount simply by:

[kuro@Saber-chan ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/neko

This gives root permissions but not to regular users of course...

3) They're both NTFS partitions created during my Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit installation. Both house a variety of images, video, music, and software. I can't say there's much different between the two. Ubuntu mounts both drives fine. One difference would be that one's on sda while the other is on sdb...

tj · 2008-05-05 14:07:17

hmm your dmesg log shows this for /dev/sda

sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

but not that last line of attached for /dev/sdb

sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3

Does /dev/sda have the Vista installation too? Just wondering how Vista sees the /mnt/neko and /mnt/tama.

The fact that you can mount without specifying fs type with the -t switch suggests that your /etc/fstab is working up to a point. You have ubuntu installed or it's a livecd environment? You might want to see what's in the ubuntu /etc/fstab and then try using that info to modify your arch /etc/fstab.

Paci · 2008-05-06 02:10:04

Does /dev/sda have the Vista installation too? Just wondering how Vista sees the /mnt/neko and /mnt/tama.

Actually, my Vista installation is on yet another drive (/dev/sda1). Both sda2 and sdb2 are ntfs data drives.

You have ubuntu installed or it's a livecd environment?

I have Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron installed on /dev/sdb1. I have the exact same fstab from my Ubuntu installation in my Arch installation.

Upon some further tinkering, I'm wondering if there's something wrong with permissions upon mounting? Here's my original fstab for easier reference:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
UUID=345d8b40-7df1-4181-8f05-8b5a5e723ed5 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=eccd251d-8731-4a30-8dca-7008b85cb321 / jfs defaults 0 1
UUID=982690952690764A /mnt/tama ntfs defaults 0 0
UUID=00AE40670B81A404 /mnt/neko ntfs defaults 0 0

If I log into Arch and unmount both drives (whether they're mounted properly or not), remount both drives, and then do an "ls -l" simply by

[kuro@Saber-chan ~]$ sudo umount /dev/sdb2 /dev/sda2
[kuro@Saber-chan ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/tama
[kuro@Saber-chan ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/neko
[kuro@Saber-chan ~]$ ls -l /mnt
total 8
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2008-05-02 05:37 neko
drwx------ 1 root root 4096 2008-05-05 04:27 tama

As you can see, it seems owner does not have write permissions for /dev/sdb2 (/mnt/neko) Is there some reason this would happen???

Paci · 2008-05-06 04:28:08

Alright I finally fixed this problem. The whole problem stems from not properly shutting down Windows . ntfs-3g had errors when mounting that partition regardless of Vista being installed on it or not. It's strange how one of my drives was able to mount but the other suffered from this problem.

Thanks tj for helping me out.

tj · 2008-05-06 15:06:53

Paci wrote:

...Thanks tj for helping me out.

Very kind but I just asked a few questions - it looks like you fixed things yourself, but thanks for posting back - mark the thread solved and you could help someone else down the line.

Last edited by tj (2008-05-06 15:07:42)

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#1 2008-05-05 10:53:30

fstab can't mount a particular partition!!

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Re: fstab can't mount a particular partition!!

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Re: fstab can't mount a particular partition!!

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Re: fstab can't mount a particular partition!!

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Re: fstab can't mount a particular partition!!

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Re: fstab can't mount a particular partition!!

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Re: fstab can't mount a particular partition!!

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