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Compiled RH7.3 to read WinXP NTFS partition, mounts in Console, but can't mount fstab
Hi everyone, I was wondering if y'all could help me out with my NTFS mounting troubles in RH7.3
I've recompiled RH7.3 to enable NTFS support Read/Only. Then I was able to mount through console with this command. mount -t ntfs /dev/hda5 /mnt Checked the contents in /mnt folder, files were there, but.... then, I tried to get it to mount in LILO or in KwikDisk to be able to be mounted on the get go by me editing fstab, but it wouldn't work. I kept on getting this error. Called: mount -tntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/ mount: mount point /mnt does not exist My fstab currently looks like this: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/ ntfs hda5 is my NTFS partiton. I left out the syntax paramters for this last edit on fstab, but i've tried so many different syntaxes in the end, I pretty much get the same darn error everytime. Am I doing something wrong? It works in console, so it should work in fstab correct? |
Probably you need to make a symlink for that or if that /mnt/ntfs is the symlink you could try:
/dev/hda5 /mnt/ntfs auto ro,noauto,user 0 0 lynch |
lynch, tried that exactly the way you have it typed out. I copied and pasted straight to fstab. Saved it, and still wouldn't mount, same dangit error.
I even edited by spacing out to be even with the rest, and still same problem exists. /dev/hda5 /mnt/ntfs auto ro,noauto,user 0 0 Thanx for the the help...Any other ideas would be appreciated. |
Ok, I think I see what's wrong
You should have made a directory in /mnt whatever you'd like in my example we will use /mnt/windows: Open a terminal mkdir /mnt/windows pico /etc/fstab (at the bottom) /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,noauto,user 0 0 CTRL + X Yes (to save) mount -a -o remount And that should be it I think |
dang Master C, that worked out. Thanx. I've been messin around with linux for like 4 days, and I'm goin gagga over it, tried it a few years back, but was so intimidated, now though things are lookin brighter. laff.
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Yeah me too, I love it. Your welcome, glad I could help
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Ok I got it all mounted, but I have to click on kwikdisk everytime to mount manually. I know theres a syntax to have it mount manually in boot, what was it? auto in fstab?
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Heck,forgot you need to create that /mnt/ntfs directory.Sorry,BlackDogg.
You may be right on that,but I havent done that since I stopped dual booting.Check out the automount mini-howto. lynch |
Coo Coo
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If you used this line, that MasterC gave you, as a template:
/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,noauto,user 0 0 Change the ' noauto ' to ' auto '. Like this: /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,auto,user 0 0 |
Duh, should have tried that first, thanx!
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You're welcome. :)
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Hello all, once again I've got mount problems and this time it's in SuSe. I tried out Suse, because everyone was telling it has NTFS support of the bat. Some said it was Suse and Mandrake. Well I tried Mandrake and NTFS was there. Now that I've installed Suse, it sees the partiton, but when I try to mount it in kwikdisk, it gives me this error:
D:\drive NTFS XP partition. Called: mount -tntfs /dev/hde5 /windows/D -o ro,noauto,user,umask=000 mount: mount point /windows/D does not exist and this for C:\drive Called: mount -tntfs /dev/hde1 /windows/C -o ro,noauto,user,umask=022 mount: mount point /windows/C does not exist. I checked in my fstab file and the lines were apparent if they weren't they wouldn't be showing in Kwikdisk. Anyways I tried to console the command and this is what I get linux:~ # mount -t ntfs /dev/hda5 /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, or too many mounted file systems (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) The lines in fstab were automatically generated by suse, but check this out, when I console this in nt -t ntfs /dev/hde5 /mnt then it works, what am I missing here? I'm sure it has somthing to do with fstab, but I don't understand it if SuSe generates the line itself. Anyways I re-edited the line to this: /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,noauto,user 0 0 and it still didn't work. keep in mind that I also created a windows dir just for testing purposes. This is so wierd, I had it working fine in RH7.3 after I had made a moudle for NTFS support, but now it's in Suse, I'm sure this is not distro related. Just a minor error somewhere. Anyone have ideas? It just seems one little type or syntax can jack everything up. |
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linux cool thanx for pointing that out. I've been up all day and night trying to figure this out....it's been a long long night.....I kept on making a directory in /mnt/windows/D, but that still didn't work. Then I realized all those other times most distros put them in /mnt/. When you pointed out my mistake i noticed in pico it's just /windows/D and /windows/C. Then I created the correct directories. SUse just puts creates the mount directories different. By the way I thought suse would create both the directories and the entry in fstab, but it only does the entries and not the directories. Is there a tool in suse 8 that does this for you, instead of manually doing the directories? I'm asking because I want to support Suse in a corporate enviroment, and it would be nice to show other people the simple way to do this one task. Oh yeah, linuxcool, I was like really out of it regarding the hda and hde, I run back and fourth on two different workstations, and the one with suse is on a highpoint interface, and I forgot, but then it was funny when i did the manual mount in console, and didn't realize I was a dumbass for not noticing.....dude what a crazy night/day. Thanx.....shoulda known better.
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