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Raccoon1400

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Fstab entries for windows partitions

I have two ntfs windows partitons I want to create fstab entries for.

/dev/sda2 /media/RECOVERY  auto  ro,user,noauto            0      0
/dev/sda3 /media/OS       auto    ro,user,noauto           0      0

despite this, they still automount on boot, and I don't want that.
What am I doing wrong?

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Aaron

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

Don't know if this would work, but have you tried changing the filesystem type from 'auto' to 'ntfs-3g' ?

Raccoon1400

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

Just tried that. If I do that, they won't mount at all. I get permissions errors.

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Raccoon1400

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

Also, when I use these entries, I don't have permission to view the contents of the partitions.

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Aaron

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

Also, when I use these entries, I don't have permission to view the contents of the partitions.

Well, that's to be expected.  You need to specify permissions in the fstab entry.  You should be able to view the contents of the location as the super user or with sudo though.  You may or may not have write access though (Can't remember if it's by default or not now)

Do you have ntfs-3g installed?  Check please.

Here's my fstab line for my NTFS windows partition, with full user read/write support.

/dev/sda1  /mnt/windows  ntfs-3g  users,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_US.utf8  0 0

That will automount on boot, fyi.

Last edited by Aaron (2008-06-22 02:17:07)

Raccoon1400

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

/dev/sda2 /media/RECOVERY  auto  noauto,users,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002        0      0
/dev/sda3 /media/OS       auto    noauto,users,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002          0      0

these entries, based on yours, automounts, and I can see the files, but not write
Yes, I have ntfs-3g installed.

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Misfit138

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

I have two ntfs windows partitons I want to create fstab entries for.

/dev/sda2 /media/RECOVERY  auto  ro,user,noauto            0      0
/dev/sda3 /media/OS       auto    ro,user,noauto           0      0

despite this, they still automount on boot, and I don't want that.
What am I doing wrong?

Well, first things first. /media is for removable media. hal also autmounts to /media.
Use /mnt for mounting filesystems.
You can of course, mount them anywhere, but let's start on the right foot.
Second, you need something more like this:

/dev/sda2 /mnt/RECOVERY ntfs-3g user,noauto 0  0
/dev/sda3 /mnt/OS       ntfs-3g    ro,user,noauto           0      0

Make sure you are in the storage group, and ntfs-3g is installed.

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Aaron

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

#chmod u+s /bin/ntfs-3g

That should give your users write access to the partition.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support

I don't know why it insists on auto-mounting though? I still think it has something to do with using 'auto' in place of 'ntfs-3g', but I also don't understand why you're getting errors when trying to use it?

What are you doing in between changes to /etc/fstab?

I use the following command to remount my partitions according to fstab

$sudo mount -a

Raccoon1400

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

when I change it to mnt, those volumes don't show up at all in gnome. (yes, it did create the directories)
When I use ntfs-3g, I get this

Error opening '/dev/sda2': Permission denied
Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Permission denied
Pease check '/dev/sda2' and the ntfs binary permissions, 
and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unpriviledged

I also added my user to the storage group.
What is the command to see what groups I am in?

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

groups

Try adding your user to the disk group. See if that helps. It's a security risk, but it may tell us something. If it doesnt help, pull yourself out of it.

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Raccoon1400

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

chmod u+s /bin/ntfs-3g
doesn't appear to help

what I have  in fstab now:
/dev/sda2 /media/RECOVERY  ntfs-3g  user,ro,noauto        0      0
/dev/sda3 /media/OS       auto    user,ro,noauto         0      0

The first entry does not mount and gives the errors posted above.
The second mounts, but I can't see any of the files.

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Raccoon1400

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

groups

Try adding your user to the disk group. See if that helps.

does nothing

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Raccoon1400

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

Wait: now when I mount the volume where I told it the fs type was ntfs-3g
ntfs-3g-mount: user has no write access to mountpoint /media/RECOVERY

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Raccoon1400

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

When I log in as root, I can see both partitons' contents, but can't write to either.

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Neo139

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

Disable Automount on login

You may want to disable automounting of ntfs(/or other filesystem) partitions on login.
File: /etc/hal/fdi/policy/20-disable-automount.fdi

<device>
  <match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
    <match key="storage.removable" bool="false">
      <merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>
    </match>
  </match>
</device>
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … t_on_login

schen

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

@Neo139
This thread is two years old, and you created an entirely new account to answer it.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … Bumping.27

Neo139

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Re: Fstab entries for windows partitions

@Neo139
This thread is two years old, and you created an entirely new account to answer it.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … Bumping.27

sorry! (the new account was not just for answering that question!)