Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 02:16:45 -0800 From: Kevin Smith <smithcam@adelphia.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot Message-ID: <41A7028D.7060803@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <20041126020446.GA81791@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <41A6FD07.1020900@adelphia.net> <20041126020446.GA81791@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Yes, putting a "0" in the sixth field takes care of the problem and the /windows file system is now mounted. thanks. > P.S. It's usually helpful to transcribe the exact error, instead of > describing vague symptoms. Yes,I agree. I was not able to retreive the exact error message from dmesg on boot as I had rebooted again and lost that. If you can tell me where I can get previous boot messages (dmesg.today didn have it either), I will post the message for the benefit of others in case they have this problem. Thanks again. -K Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 01:53:11AM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote: > > >>I am able to mount my windows partition manually by either: >> >> >> >>>mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /windows >>> >>> >>or by putting an entry in by /dev/fstab that looks like: >> >>/dev/ad0s1 /windows ntfs ro 2 2 >> >>and using command: >> >> > ^^^ > > The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine > the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root > filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesys- > tems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be > checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked > at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. If > the sixth field is not present or is zero, a value of zero is returned > and fsck(8) will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked. > >Since you don't want to run fsck on the ntfs volume, set this to zero. > > > >>If I leave this entry in my /etc/fstab, the OS reports inconsistency >>errors on bootup when it tries to mount and goes into single-user mode. >>I then had to remount / for read-write and delete the line in the fstab >>before it would boot again. >> >> > >P.S. It's usually helpful to transcribe the exact error, instead of >describing vague symptoms. > >Kris > >
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