FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:31 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> max wrote:
> > 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.....
> > 
> The OP said it was a USB drive. The problem is that the system has 
> no way of knowing what is on the drive, and will cause the system to 
> boot into the single user mode so you can fix the problem if the 
> drive is not there.

I have an external USB drive permanently attached. If for some reason
it's turned off, the boot process will log some errors and continue.
This is my fstab line:

LABEL=/xtra     /xtra     ext3    defaults  1 2

Note that it's ext3. ntfs-3g via FUSE may complicate things, I don't
know.

poc