Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:07:00 -0500 From: Novembre <novembre@gmail.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS-3G mount during boot Message-ID: <3b47caa90710071107g7ce30067k832d97db92afbd1c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200710071548.04067.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <3b47caa90710062301s32d54e30j1f2e64eb65126879@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710062341050.62920@qbhto.arg> <3b47caa90710070100p7b28e9f8o64b4e76304710c32@mail.gmail.com> <200710071548.04067.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On 10/7/07, Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote: > > On Sunday 07 October 2007 10:00:35 Novembre wrote: > > > On 10/7/07, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Novembre wrote: > > > > The first error above is because the fuse kernel module is not yet > > > > > > loaded. > > > > > > Well isn't it sort of pointless to proceed until you get the kernel > > > module loaded at boot time and then see what happens next? > > > > Oh, the kernel module IS loaded as shown in 'dmesg -a' and in > > /var/log/messages. However, it can't be loaded unless / and /usr file > > systems are mounted. > > Filesystems that need modules from anywhere else then the root partition > cannot be loaded from /etc/fstab. > Either make fusefs-kmod install in /boot/modules > (echo 'KMOD_DIR=/boot/modules' > >/usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-kmod/Makefile.local) or mount the filesystem > using an rc(8) script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. > In the end you do not really care whether it's mounted 20 seconds or 1 > second > before login prompt is available. > > -- > Mel > 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)? 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? ---------- [user@pasargadae ~]$ 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 ---------- 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)! ---------- [user@pasargadae ~]$ 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" load_rc_config $name : ${ntfsmount_enable="NO"} run_rc_command "$1" ---------- I have made this script executable and have put ' ntfsmount_enable="YES" ' in my /etc/rc.conf. So basically, I'm out of ideas now, and I need the experts' help in this case. I think this problem is way above my current knowledge of FreeBSD. Thanks for your help :)
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