Re: mounting ntfs partition

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Nima Azarbayjany wrote:
> I have been trying to use the disk-manager utility to mount my NTFS
> partition on /dev/sda1.  The utility successfully identifies the partition
> and has added the following line to my fstab:
> 
> /dev/sda1    /media/sda1    ntfs-3g    defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8    0    0
> 
> The partition is not automatically mounted during boot up.  I am really
> confused.  Can anyone tell what should I do?  I have installed the ntfs-3g
> package.  The partition successfully mounts using the utility itself or the
> mount command in terminal.  Should it not mount automatically at startup
> when it has been added to fstab?

Maybe the kernel tries to mount the partition at a stage when the
required modules are not yet available.

Does 'mount -a' (as root) work after bootup?

Johannes