Re: mounting a NTFS partition at boot time

[Alan Sobey <ags-lists@esatclear.ie>]

> > > Yes. I am runing 2.2.14, and compiled NTFS as a module, I have no
> > > problem mounting it from command line. But putting it in fstab does not
> > > work.
> > 
> > Could you post the line in fstab?
> Here are a couple of lines from my fstab:
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options>                  <dump>
> # <pass>
> /dev/hda3       /             ext2   defaults,errors=remount-ro 0      1
> /dev/hda5       /usr/local    ext2   defaults,errors=remount-ro 0      1
> /dev/hda6       /home         ext2   defaults,errors=remount-ro 0      1
> /dev/hda1       /winnt        ntfs   defaults,errors=remount-ro 0      0

Check your man page for the options for ntfs - maybe your selected
options aren't valid.  Try "mount /winnt" from the console (i.e. let
it try to read /etc/fstab, rather than typing in the full command
manually) and hopefully errors will be reported to the console.

Alan.