Re: FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

max bianco wrote:
> 2008/4/2 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > max bianco wrote:
> >
> > > I am not sure what his fstab should look like but as far as using the
> > > mount command I have always found that you have to be root or have
> > > permission explicitly granted. I plug in my external drive and it just
> > > automounts for me, i don't remember doing anything special to get this
> > > to work, but apparently this was not the case in FC6, i have never
> > > used FC6. Hopefully he will  let us know what happened.
> > >
> > > Max
> >  FC6 would auto mount as well. But if you have an entry in /etc/fstab for
> > the device, it will not get auto-mounted.
>
> shouldn't it mount if the "noauto" is removed from fstab?
>
> Max
If you remove the noauto, the init scripts will try to mount the 
drive. The problem is, if the drive is not plugged in, the system 
will not be able to mount it, and may not boot. (It is a USB drive.) 
If there is an entry in /etc/fstab, then the hotplug auto-mounting 
will not work.

If I remember correctly, auto-mounting in FC6 works better if the 
partition has a name. If the NTFS partition was names SHAREd, then 
the drive partition would get mounted on /media/SHARED. This also 
works in later versions. Changing the permissions and mount options 
different than using fstab, and involves learning a different set of 
rules. But tools are being developed to make it easier.

Mikkel
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