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madchine

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Registered: 2009-11-04

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[SOLVED] NTFS partition unmounted after suspend to ram

I recently did a from-scratch installation after I bought an SSD to replace of my old harddrive. Since this fresh install I have been having a problem with an NTFS partition that is mounted by way of fstab (it's not _the_ windows partition just a bit of shared space on a dual-boot setup): Whenever I suspend the computer and bring it back up, the NTFS partition is invariably unmounted.

The mount point is empty and the mount command makes no mention of the mount. A simple "sudo mount /mnt/SAND" will bring the partition back up again although sometimes it needs to be umounted first (the mount point is still empty despite the 'mount'). Here is the fstab line:

/dev/sda3	/mnt/SAND	ntfs-3g	defaults,noatime,uid=1000,gid=100					0	0

Testing and screwing around I've noticed that if the WINDOWS partition is mounted using nautilus (as it is not mentioned in fstab) that too will be unmounted while a non-root ext4 partition (UBUNTU) is not.

So my hypothesis is that these NTFS partitions are singled out for unmounting when suspending (but apparently not mounting when reawakening?) -- maybe because they are assumed to be external drives? Given that it happens across mounting solutions (fstab/nautilus) I'm inclined to think it's not a bug?

At any rate I'm looking for a solution that will allow me to stop the unmounting when suspending -- ideally for all internal drives, secondarily for these specific partitions. I have checked the suspend to ram article on the wiki but it doesn't seem to mention anything about unmounting...

EDIT: After the Great Big Arch Switch To Systemd this problem no longers occurs on so I'm closing it. Not necessarily much of a solution to anyone who happens on this from google, sorry.

Last edited by madchine (2012-10-13 12:58:54)

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