On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:04 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > I've been trying to mount an NTFS partition on a system dual booting > XP > and FC6, following the instructions in the "Personal Fedora Core 6 > Installation > Guide" (http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6.html#ntfs). > These are basically: > > (1) yum install fuse fuse-libs ntfs-3g ntfsprogs ntfsprogs-gnomevfs > (2) create directory /mnt/winNTFS > (3) add this line to /etc/fstab: > /dev/sda1 /mnt/winNTFS ntfs-3g ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0 > > But then I get this error message during booting: > Fuse mount point creation error. No such file or directory > Unmounting /dev/sda1 Failed > > When I log on I find the partition has not mounted. > > While logged on, if I do this command (also in the instructions): > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/winNTFS -t ntfs-3g -ro umask=0222 > I get this message: > WARNING: Old FUSE kernel module detected. This means, some driver > features are not available (swap file on NTFS, boot from NTFS by > LILO), > and unmount is not safe unless you make sure the ntfs-3g process > naturally terminates after calling 'umount'. The safe FUSE kernel > driver > is included in the official Linux kernels since version 2.6.20-rc1, or > in the FUSE 2.6 software package. Please see the next page for more > help: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#fuse26 > > The NTFS partition mounts successfully and I'm able to read files. > But > when I shutdown the system I get several screens-worth of error > messages > zipping by, including: > umount /mnt/winNTFS block devices not supported on fuse > > which make me nervous. Does anyone have insight as to what's going > on? > Is this procedure for mounting a NTFS partition safe or am I risking > damage? Is there a better way to do this? > > Thanks for the help! --Jerry Well I tried the mount and got the same error. That is strange since I could swear that the last time I did this there was no error. I even tried ntfsmount with the same result. I would conclude the problem arose with a recent upgrade. Well you can follow the instructions at the web site. So there is a solution. If you believe the error message umounting would be safe if you make sure ntfs-3g has terminated which could be automated in a script I guess. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
