ntfs problem

eldamar · 2008-02-19 19:15:32

Well my ntfs drives usualy mounts automaticly but today it seems to have stoped doing so, i might have done something in some config that i dont know about... anny sugestions?

SiC · 2008-02-19 19:35:57

What does your /etc/fstab say? What does mount say when you try to mount the drive?

eldamar · 2008-02-19 19:46:12

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 /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0   vfat   user,noauto   0      0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4 /home ext2 defaults 0 1
none  /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc defaults 0 0

I havent tryide to manualy mounted it becouse it has always just been mounted automaticly.

SiC · 2008-02-19 20:00:20

Yup, it's listed in there, so it won't be mounting automagically when you startup, that's your problem.

You need to add the device line back into the fstab file.

For my laptop thats as follows

/dev/sda2 /mnt/vista ntfs auto, users, user, noexec, nosuid, nogid 0 0

add the line as appropriate to the fstab file, then type

mount /dev/sda2

or whatever your partition is to mount the drive. Problem solved (in theory)

HTH

Si

tuxce · 2008-02-19 20:45:08

eldamar wrote:

Well my ntfs drives usualy mounts automaticly but today it seems to have stoped doing so, i might have done something in some config that i dont know about... anny sugestions?

from a desktop manager? if yes which one?

eldamar · 2008-02-19 21:57:37

i tryide to add:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 ntfs auto, users, user, noexec, nosuid, nogid 0 0
to fstab and wrote mount /dev/sdb1 but it gives me:
[mntent]: rad 17 i /etc/fstab är felaktig
mount: kan inte hitta /dev/sdb1 i /etc/fstab eller /etc/mtab

I used gnome at first but i switched to xfce4, maby that is my problem?

tuxce · 2008-02-19 23:08:37

you cannot have spaces in mount options (fourth field):

/dev/sdb1     /mnt/sdb1     ntfs       auto,users,user,noexec,nosuid,nogid    0    0

mrunion · 2008-02-20 04:15:21

*IF* you have ntfs-3g installed AND you've updated recently and got the ntfs-3g update, try running this as root:

chmod u+s /bin/ntfs-3g

B-Con · 2008-02-20 07:20:47

eldamar wrote:

i tryide to add:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 ntfs auto, users, user, noexec, nosuid, nogid 0 0
to fstab and wrote mount /dev/sdb1 but it gives me:
[mntent]: rad 17 i /etc/fstab är felaktig
mount: kan inte hitta /dev/sdb1 i /etc/fstab eller /etc/mtab
I used gnome at first but i switched to xfce4, maby that is my problem?

gnome-volume-manager will automatically attempt to mount unmounted partitions/drivers it detect's on startup. Since your fstab doesn't contain an entry for your ntfs partition, it's obvious gnome-volume-manager was responsible, in the past, for performing the automatic mount. If you switched to XFCE it is likely XFCE doesn't have an equivalent service (at least one enabled by default) and you will have to manually add a line (such as above) to your fstab to auto-mount it.

SiC · 2008-02-20 10:51:53

tuxce wrote:

you cannot have spaces in mount options (fourth field):
/dev/sdb1     /mnt/sdb1     ntfs       auto,users,user,noexec,nosuid,nogid    0    0

My bad sorry, indeed correct, you can't have spaces in the options section.

Should be able to try again without spaces if you have put them in. It looks like mount is reporting that it cannot find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab which could be caused by spaces in the options line.

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#1 2008-02-19 19:15:32

ntfs problem

#2 2008-02-19 19:35:57

Re: ntfs problem

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