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[dejan555]

OK, I wanted to put my /dev/sda5 (ntfs) partition in fstab so it mounts on startup and i can mount/umount it without long cli mount options, I can still have it mounted in rc.sysinit or in ~/Startup but i think we should solve this, even if fstab is not used through puppy users (yes, click on drive icon works, and yes mounting from cli works).

So I put in fstab:

[dio444]

I duplicated this in 4.21, and 4.30. Something in puppy is passing a -n to ntfs-3g automatically when mounting from fstab. Looked around some and can't find it so far, but my wife is on my ass, I gotta go do some things. Maybe I'll look at it more later.

Tom

[panzerpuppy]

It would be nice to have a little GUI-based app to enable auto-mounting of selected (detected) partitions / drives on startup.

[diaeresis]

second, third and fourth that. It would make life soooo much easier. Please, please, please.

[dejan555]

Anyone has solution for fstab issue yet?

[diaeresis]

on bugtracker

[hexdef101]

I don't know if this has been solved yet but instaid of using fstab edit .xinitrc
add ntfs-3g (drive location) (mount point) just above the line
#exec currentwm
this will do the same thing as editing fstab

[dejan555]

Thanks hexdef101 I know that I said I could put it in rc.sysinit ot .xinitrc or /root/Startup but this is bug with fstab.

[hexdef101]

oops sorry i just scanned your post. have you tried the ntfs-3g-2009.4.4-p4.pet from http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4. thats where i got mine but as i don't use fstab for this i cannot say if it has been fixed or not

[aragon]

@dejan
if i remember right, mount is a script. look at /usr for it. i think it's a wrapper for busybox's mount, so maybe this causes your problems.

aragon

[dejan555]

thanks, I'll take a look.