Hey,

I've recently reinstalled fedora because i didn't like the way my harddrive was set out. However, i'm having big troubles mounting my NTFS filesystem. I originally got it to mount, but couldn't see an icon on the desktop (could before i reinstalled). Now it won't mount at all, it says line 7 is bad in fstab.
Here is my fstab output:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=eni yezefundo, swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/win ntfs ro,umask=0222,uid=Graham,gid=winuser 0 0

/dev/sdb1 /media/EXTERNAL_HD vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,managed 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

basically i don't know what's going on!! What line is number 7, and how can i edit it to mount my NTFS system.
Cheers, and thanks in advanced.

You're encountering a known bug in anaconda, the Fedora installer, that writes garbage to the swap entry of /etc/fstab. Edit /etc/fstab and change line 7 (the swap line) to something like this.

Replace "x" and "n" with your hard drive info, like hda3 or similar.

Then reboot and see if that fixes you up.

Well, i don't know which version of Fedora do you have, but when I tried Fedora Core 4, i just use ro,umask=0222 to mount the partition automatically

I also had to install a kernel-module-ntfs, but that's maybe not necesary in your case

The 7 line is this:

/dev/hda3 /mnt/win ntfs ro,umask=0222,uid=Graham,gid=winuser 0 0

First of all, make sure that /mnt/win exist, also, you can prove with just putting ro,umask=0222 in your fstab or playing with the options mounting manually from the shell, i.e. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/win -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222 and adding the uid and gid if it's necesary

You can obtain more information from fedorafaq


Hope you find usefull



Bye

Hey Guys,

Managed to get the partition to mount, and just rebooted and no longer get the line 7 error!! Sweet, i take it now the swap is active my computer will be quicker. Just one last question, how do i get a drive icon for the ntfs partition to appear on my desktop cos it would be really useful for browsing?

Well, in fedora as I remember, you have to go to the Contro Center > Desktop > Behavior > Device Icons and there mark the item that say "Mounted Disk" or sometime like that



Bye

Verify swap is active with this command:

cat /proc/meminfo | grep SwapTotal

If it shows something other than zero, you're good to go.

If it shows zero, execute this command.

swapon -a