> > Well, I gave up using /etc/fstab to mount NTFS partitions at boot time a > > couple of months ago when I realized that it's not the correct way to do it > > (so I also wrote an rc.d script to do the job, but I'll talk about it > > later). However, I recently looked at fusefs-ntfs source files, and as you > > can see from > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/Makefile > > in revision 1.19, there are changes (installing a symlink) to allow using > > /etc/fstab to mount NTFS partitions at boot. So I thought that maybe now > > it's okay to use /etc/fstab. Anyway, if it's still not possible to use > > /etc/fstab, then what does that sentence mean in the revision 1.19 of > > fusefs-ntfs Makefile (again, see the URL above)? > > The only way I can see that working is if /usr/local/modules in > kern.modules_path /before/ mount -a is executed by /etc/rc.d/mount. Which > means there should be a line: > kern.module_path=/boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/usr/local/modules > > in /etc/sysctl.conf on your machine. > Also, mount_ntfs-3g should be able to load the module dynamically.
My /etc/sysctl.conf is basically empty; it's all the usual default comments. Nothing is specified there. > > Another question is why, even after loading the kernel module (see the > > 'dmesg -a' output below), it is not possible to mount the NTFS partition? > > ---------- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dmesg -a > > ... > > Starting fusefs. > > fuse4bsd: version 0.3.9-pre1, FUSE ABI 7.8 > > ... > > Mounting late file systems: > > fuse: failed to exec mount program: No such file or directory > > ---------- > > What does ls -l /sbin/mount_ntfs-3g say? There is no /sbin/mount_ntfs-3g. But /usr/sbin/mount_ntfs-3g exists and is a symlink to /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g. I'm not sure whether it's relevant to your question, but I had made /sbin/mount_ntfs-3g a symlink to /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g myself, and that also was not working (but I had tired it with the previous version of ntfs-3g not the one currently installed). > > This output from /var/log/messages is also interesting, showing that > > ntfs-3g has indeed been run and that it has mounted my Windows partition > > (but I don't see it mounted)! > > ---------- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /var/log/messages > > ... > > Oct 6 14:22:40 pasargadae kernel: Trying to mount root from > > ufs:/dev/ad0s2a Oct 6 14:22:45 pasargadae kernel: fuse4bsd: version > > 0.3.9-pre1, FUSE ABI 7.8 > > Oct 6 14:22:45 pasargadae ntfs-3g[811]: Version 1.913 > > Oct 6 14:22:45 pasargadae ntfs-3g[811]: Mounted /dev/ad0s1 (Read-Write, > > label "", NTFS 3.0) > > Oct 6 14:22:45 pasargadae ntfs-3g[811]: Cmdline options: (null) > > Oct 6 14:22:45 pasargadae ntfs-3g[811]: Mount options: > > noatime,silent,allow_other ,fsname=/dev/ad0s1 > > ... > > ---------- > > > And I didn't know about the /boot/modules way. Could you please ellaborate > > more? Is it a different way to load kernel modules than using > > /boot/loader.conf? When should one use that? > > > > And now, about coming back to using an rc.d script...After failing to use > > /etc/fstab, I wrote this script to mount the partition at boot time. > > However, this also does not work! > > ---------- > > #!/bin/sh > > # > > # PROVIDE: ntfsmount > > # REQUIRE: fusefs > > # > > > > . /etc/rc.subr > > > > name="ntfsmount" > > rcvar=${name}_enable > > command="/usr/sbin/mount_ntfs-3g" > > command_args="/dev/ad0s1 /mnt/windows -o locale=en_US.UTF-8" > > Does /mnt/windows exist? > Anything interesting with `sh -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ntfsmount' ? Yes, /mnt/windows exists. Nothing interesting as far as I could understand the output of 'sh -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ntfsmount'. What specifically do I have to look for? > If I find some more time, I'll play around with it. > -- > Mel Thanks a lot :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"