Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:14:56 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS-3G mount during boot Message-ID: <200710072114.57168.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <3b47caa90710071107g7ce30067k832d97db92afbd1c@mail.gmail.com> References: <3b47caa90710062301s32d54e30j1f2e64eb65126879@mail.gmail.com> <200710071548.04067.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <3b47caa90710071107g7ce30067k832d97db92afbd1c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 07 October 2007 20:07:00 Novembre wrote: > 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)? 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. > 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 > ---------- What does ls -l /sbin/mount_ntfs-3g say? > 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" Does /mnt/windows exist? Anything interesting with `sh -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ntfsmount' ? If I find some more time, I'll play around with it. -- Mel
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