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lpv

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Registered: 2021-12-23

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[Resolved]Can't mount NTFS disks at boot

I want to have my NTFS drives mounted without requesting password every reboot, and I've tried all I could find. Mounting in fstab, gnome-disks auto-mount, polkit. Nothing seems to work. I have ntfs-3g and fuse installed.

If I do

sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/mountDir

I get

mount: /mnt/mountDir: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'.

Same thing happens with fstab of which my lines are:

UUID=XXXXXXX  /run/media/BackUp       ntfs    uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=022,fmask=133    0       0
UUID=YYYYYYY  /run/media/GamesSSD     ntfs    uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=022,fmask=133    0       0

And when I do that it basically fails on boot and tells me to check systemctl status run-media-BackUp.mount which gives the above error.

If I do this:
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/84apcxqzme4.png
then when I reboot and go to file manager and click the disk it will ask for password as usual but gives this error:
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/l4necaberr4.png

I also tried the first answer here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029399 … partitions
Had no effect whatsoever.

I've no idea what else to do.

Last edited by lpv (2024-02-12 09:20:26)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [Resolved]Can't mount NTFS disks at boot

Request ntfs-3g explicitly or use ntfs3 for the in-kernel driver instead of ntfs-3g

lpv

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Registered: 2021-12-23

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Re: [Resolved]Can't mount NTFS disks at boot

Request ntfs-3g explicitly or use ntfs3 for the in-kernel driver instead of ntfs-3g

Do you mean this:

If you want to use ntfs3 as the default driver for ntfs partitions, such udev rule does the trick:

/etc/udev/rules.d/ntfs3_by_default.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="ntfs", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}="ntfs3"

I forgot to mention I also tried that to no avail.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [Resolved]Can't mount NTFS disks at boot

Yes and no, apparently this rule isn't read correctly, so just explicitly use ntfs3 in your fstab instead of ntfs

lpv

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Registered: 2021-12-23

Posts: 14

Re: [Resolved]Can't mount NTFS disks at boot

Yes and no, apparently this rule isn't read correctly, so just explicitly use ntfs3 in your fstab instead of ntfs

Wow you guys are geniuses. I did not expect to solve this one so easily after trying "everything". Thank you so much!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,231

Re: [Resolved]Can't mount NTFS disks at boot

You'd probably still want to find out why your ntfs symlink is broken, what's your output for

stat /bin/mount.ntfs
pacman -Qkk ntfs-3g

lpv

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Registered: 2021-12-23

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Re: [Resolved]Can't mount NTFS disks at boot

You'd probably still want to find out why your ntfs symlink is broken, what's your output for

stat /bin/mount.ntfs
pacman -Qkk ntfs-3g

I'm embarassed. ntfs-3g was not installed. I don't know how I did that as it was the first thing I tried. I swear I remember installing it, obviously since I tried everything I could find. My apologies..

Last edited by lpv (2024-02-11 20:06:43)

cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

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Re: [Resolved]Can't mount NTFS disks at boot

Aside from the solution - auto-mounting something called "backup" sounds like a bad idea!
Imagine some bad code runs a rm -rf / as root - this will also clean your backup as its mounted.
You should rethink about having some fallback always mounted write-access. At least decrease the risk by mout read-only.

lpv

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Registered: 2021-12-23

Posts: 14

Re: [Resolved]Can't mount NTFS disks at boot

Aside from the solution - auto-mounting something called "backup" sounds like a bad idea!
Imagine some bad code runs a rm -rf / as root - this will also clean your backup as its mounted.
You should rethink about having some fallback always mounted write-access. At least decrease the risk by mout read-only.

I had another main disk and this backup drive was it's backup but the main was faulty so I put it aside. I need to buy a new disk. However even in worst-case someone rm -rf's my disk probly I'll probably only be missing some games given I have the old faulty disk. Yeh faulty doesn't sound too good but it works. Thanks for the heads up!

Last edited by lpv (2024-02-12 08:20:03)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [Resolved]Can't mount NTFS disks at boot

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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