Re: mounting a NTFS partition at boot time
Alan Sobey [ags-lists@esatclear.ie] wrote:
> > > > 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.
Yes, I did check. NTFS is not there. But the manpage does mention that
any file system listed in /proc/filesystems should be supported, which
has got NTFS.
> 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.
% sudo mount /winnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems
It seems to me it is still trying to mount it as an ext2 partition.
Regards,
Shao.
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