FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.
max
maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 21:53:35 UTC 2008
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> max bianco wrote:
>> 2008/4/2 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
>>> max bianco wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am not sure what his fstab should look like but as far as using the
>>>> mount command I have always found that you have to be root or have
>>>> permission explicitly granted. I plug in my external drive and it just
>>>> automounts for me, i don't remember doing anything special to get this
>>>> to work, but apparently this was not the case in FC6, i have never
>>>> used FC6. Hopefully he will let us know what happened.
>>>>
>>>> Max
>>>>
>>>>
>>> FC6 would auto mount as well. But if you have an entry in /etc/fstab
>>> for
>>> the device, it will not get auto-mounted.
>>
>> shouldn't it mount if the "noauto" is removed from fstab?
>>
>> Max
>>
> If you remove the noauto, the init scripts will try to mount the drive.
> The problem is, if the drive is not plugged in, the system will not be
> able to mount it, and may not boot. (It is a USB drive.) If there is an
> entry in /etc/fstab, then the hotplug auto-mounting will not work.
Why would the box fail to boot? Assuming the drive does not contain any
system files needed at startup shouldn't it just make a note of the
missing drive in a log and keep going. You hinted at something related
to it being a USB drive.....
>
> If I remember correctly, auto-mounting in FC6 works better if the
> partition has a name. If the NTFS partition was names SHAREd, then the
> drive partition would get mounted on /media/SHARED. This also works in
> later versions. Changing the permissions and mount options different
> than using fstab, and involves learning a different set of rules. But
> tools are being developed to make it easier.
If FC6 supports automounting the drive then why was an entry in fstab
needed in the first place?
Am i missing something that should be obvious here?
Max
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