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aqtrans

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Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 30

NTFS External HD won't automount!

So I setup /etc/fstab as

/dev/sdc2     /media/mcspicy    ntfs-3g    users,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=002,locale=en_US.utf8    0 0

yet this doesn't automount it. I get a message about "/dev/sdc2" not existing when booting, but cannot find it in the logs. If I login, get to my desktop and run

sudo mount -a

then it mounts and works fine.
Anyone know a solution? It's really annoying when I accidentally start Deluge without running mount -a, and have to recheck most of my torrents

Last edited by aqtrans (2008-10-08 08:10:04)

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: NTFS External HD won't automount!

Please post the output of

fdisk -l

aqtrans

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Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 30

Re: NTFS External HD won't automount!

Hmm...I might have found the problem. Apparently my external has a GUID partition table due to it being formatted on my Macbook. Although it mounts fine when the system is booted, so that doesn't seem like it'd cause problems.
Output:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe33e7489

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        3039    24410736   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            3040        3226     1502077+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3   *        3227       18928   126126315    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4           18929       38914   160530432    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           18929       38914   160529408    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00002c77

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       77825   625129281   83  Linux

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdc'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x003a7901

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1          26      204819+  ee  GPT
/dev/sdc2   *          26       60801   488179212+   7  HPFS/NTFS

DARKGuy

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Registered: 2008-04-07

Posts: 14

Re: NTFS External HD won't automount!

Curious. Can you please tell us the version of Hal and Udev that you have? there seems to be a recent problem with the latest version of those two packages that don't let any NTFS drive automount anymore

aqtrans

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Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 30

Re: NTFS External HD won't automount!

HAL: 0.5.11-4
Udev: 128-5
Those are just from yaourt -Qi hal and udev.

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: NTFS External HD won't automount!

Curious. Can you please tell us the version of Hal and Udev that you have? there seems to be a recent problem with the latest version of those two packages that don't let any NTFS drive automount anymore

Curious? I'd get mighty curious the day it automounted, and correctly at that... Udev 130 seems to be the cure. Its still doesn't automount correctly (using utf8, that is, at least with KDE).

Last edited by Llama (2008-10-11 11:13:33)