[SLAX] How To Refine a NTFS-3g Installation
This weekend, I built new modules for FUSE 2.61 and NTFS-3g-20070118 for Slax. They work, but there's a wrinkle. I can't mount NTFS partitions as R/W from KDE's KONQUEROR. KONQUEROR's mount helper seems to skip past /etc/fstab and apparently uses the obsolete NTFS R/O kernel support (yes, I explicitly built the FUSE kernel module).
When I mount w/ the MOUNT cmd, this is what goes into the System log: Code:
Jan 23 14:59:02 (none) ntfs-3g[26192]: Version 0.20070118-BETA Code:
Jan 23 14:42:05 (none) kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1. I thought about regen'g the NTFS kernel module, not that it would fix the problem, but something's wrong w/ the Slax kernel sources, so no new NTFS.KO. One final bit: I got started on this crusade bec of KNOPPIX 5.11. That was my 1st distro w/ the new R/W support. Anyway, while trying to gen some new ideas, I booted my KNOPPIX disc and noticed that it launches a kind of service process for each MOUNTed NTFS partition, regardlesss of whether it was explicitly MOUNTed from the cmd-line or thru KONQUEROR ! So perfect and elegant. I bet they simply grafted the solution onto the working system, w/o re-engineering anything. I'm just about out of ideas, so if someone has fresh brain cells to spare, I'd apreciate.... |
Any reason not to put the mount in /etc/fstab?
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$ cat /etc/fstab | grep ntfs Oh, if your NTFS disk isn't always available, you could use automount to get it mounted when needed and available. |
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Maybe I'm being anal about this, but I'd like to make this module as close to perfect as I can.... |
Turns out I had to recompile the kernel, in order to disable the NTFS kernel driver. Was convinced there was some other way, in fact I actually saw indications of same, but apparently not for block devices. Regardless, I have the system I always wanted, w/ full NTFS-3g R/W support....
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