Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:57:06 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mounting XP drive Message-ID: <4561D052.9000207@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20061120115754.GB13154@catflap.slightlystrange.org> References: <45616258.5040604@comcast.net> <20061120115754.GB13154@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
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Daniel Bye wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 12:07:52AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > >> I've been having trouble mounting a Windows XP drive. Acutally, the >> drive mounts, but the system always starts up in single user mode. Here >> is the fstab: >> >> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump >> Pass# >> /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 >> /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 >> /dev/ad0s1d /usr ufs rw 2 2 >> /dev/ad1s1 /c ntfs rw 1 1 >> /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 >> >> When I try to boot the system I get this error message: >> >> fsck: exec fsck_ntfs for /dev/ad1s1 in /sbin:/usr/sbin: no such file or >> directory >> >> The system then goes directly into single user mode. When I ctrl-D my >> way into multi-user mode and do a df I find that the Windows drive is >> mounted. I just can't seem to avoid the initial boot into single-user >> mode. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> > > Change the final column for /dev/ad1s1 to 0. When set to 1, it causes > init to run fsck against a mount point before mounting it. As you have > found, there is no fsck_ntfs, because at the moment ntfs support in > FreeBSD is read-only. > > Dan > > Bingo! Thanks Dan. I remember reading somewhere about the sketchy support for ntfs, and I needed to read the man page on fstab. That sixth column is there for a reason! Rem
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