Re: problem mounting NTFS partition

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>

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