Fwd: How do I mount an external ntfs formatted harddisk manually and through /etc/fstab?

Gavin Atkinson gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk
Mon Aug 17 09:21:10 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 19:32 +0200, Jens Rasmus Liland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for the late reply - I went on vacation for a while.
> 
> I think 'mount_ntfs-3g' did the trick in terms of mounting /dev/da0s1
> manually. But I tried to add
> 
> /dev/da0s1              /homewd         ntfs-3g    ro              0       0
> 
> ... but then the computer panicked, and went into single user mode. I think
> it happened because the ntfs-3g module is loaded later with the
> fusefs-stuff. How to get around this one?

Make sure you have recompiled fusefs, ntfs-3g and any other ports that
they rely on since you last upgraded your kernel/world.  The fusefs
kernel module seems to be quite sensitive to changes in the kernel
itself.

Gavin


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