how to use autofs to mount ntfs

carlcs · 04-18-2008, 03:27 AM

I got a problem when i mounted ntfs using autofs.
I install ntfs-3g, and I can mount my partition using
"mount -t ntfs-eg /dev/sda5 /mnt -o ro ".
But I don't know why autofs can't mount.
I add this line "/misc/sda5 -fstype=ntfs-3g,ro :/dev/sda5" to auto.misc.
but it didn't work. Any idea? My system is Fedora Core 6.

marquardl · 04-18-2008, 04:22 AM

Quote:

"/misc/sda5 -fstype=ntfs-3g,ro :/dev/sda5"

"ntfs-3g" is the name of the package and the kernel module, but not the filesystem type. Try using "ntfs" (or "vfat") for filesystem type, like:

Quote:

"/misc/sda5 -fstype=ntfs,ro :/dev/sda5"

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carlcs · 04-19-2008, 10:56 AM

It didn't work. I tried all filesystem types. I think the proplem is in autofs. Who can help me? Thank you.

Junior Hacker · 04-19-2008, 11:40 PM

If the ntfs-3g package is installed, you need to create a mount point in the Linux file system to access it,then unmount it, then mount it manually with these commands as root:

Code:

mkdir /windows
umount /dev/sda5
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 /windows

This will mount it in read/write mode.
If it mounted successfully and you can access the files on the ntfs partition through the /windows directory, you can then edit /etc/fstab file to mount it in read/write mode upon every re-boot. The simple instructions at the Ntfs-3g site work good.

carlcs · 04-20-2008, 12:46 AM

I could mount ntfs using fstab. And I can get more information using man ntfs-3g. But I don't know why I can't use autofs to do it.

jay73 · 04-20-2008, 02:43 AM

Edit /etc/auto.master:

/automount (this is the mount point) /etc/auto.misc

Edit or create /etc/auto.misc:

win -fstype=ntfs-3g :/dev/???

Make sure that this file is not executable:
chmod a-x /etc/auto.misc

Start the automount daemon:

/etc/init.d/autofs start (or whichever way daemons are started on your distro)

Check whether all is fine:

ps aux | grep autofs

carlcs · 04-20-2008, 12:47 PM

Hi,jay73. Had you succeeded to do these?
My configure is listed here, anyone can give me some idea.
in /etc/auto.master

Quote:

/misc /etc/auto.misc

in /etc/auto.misc

Quote:

sda1 -fstype=ntfs-3g :/dev/sda1

[root@vincent ~]# ll /etc/auto.m*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 560 Apr 9 10:57 /etc/auto.master
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 649 Apr 21 09:32 /etc/auto.misc

But it didn't work.

By the way, I'm really new here. What's distro?

jay73 · 04-20-2008, 01:08 PM

A distro is short for "distribution", a bundle of software - a "brand" of Linux in a way. Ubuntu is a distro, Suse is one, Fedora another, etc.

Now, as for your /etc/auto.master, I see that you have defined "/misc" as your mount point. This implies that you also need to create a folder called misc (right under /). You will also need to create an sda1 folder inside misc.

And you need to make sure that the autofs daemon is started. If the daemon isn't running, then nothing obviously nothing autofs related is going to work.

carlcs · 04-21-2008, 04:29 AM

I created all the directory it needed. /misc, /misc/sda1,etc.
and the daemon of autofs is automount, right?
the daemon did works when i execute `ps aux|grep auto`

Quote:

[root@vincent ~]# ps aux |grep auto
root 31012 0.0 0.1 7344 1264 ? Ssl 00:44 0:00 automount
root 31126 0.0 0.0 3884 688 pts/2 S+ 00:48 0:00 grep auto

But I can't enter "/misc/sda1". It print an error like this

Quote:

[root@vincent ~]# cd /misc/sda1
-bash: cd: /misc/sda1: No such file or directory

jay73 · 04-21-2008, 09:48 AM

Did you create those folders as suggested? If you system can't find them, it seems very reasonable to expect that they simply do not exist.

carlcs · 04-22-2008, 08:12 AM

I did. Is my system's problem?
Could any one help me?