From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 20 15:58:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF4416A417 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:58:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.192.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F0943ED4 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:57:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from [67.188.231.169] (c-67-188-231-169.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[67.188.231.169]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20061120155707m13004pm39e>; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:57:07 +0000 Message-ID: <4561D052.9000207@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:57:06 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD References: <45616258.5040604@comcast.net> <20061120115754.GB13154@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20061120115754.GB13154@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Mounting XP drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:58:26 -0000 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