NTFS-3G mount during boot

[Alejandro Pulver]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 01:01:33 -0500
Novembre <novembre at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 

Hello.

I have fixed the problem together with the NTFS-3G 1.1004 update. A
part of the fix involves fusefs-kmod and needs maintainer approval, but
is trivial. See below for the details.

> The ongoing problem with mounting my NTFS partition at boot time still
> remains. I have upgraded ntfs-3g to the latest version from ports:
> ----------
> [user at pasargadae ~]$ pkg_info | grep fuse
> fusefs-kmod-0.3.9.p1 Kernel module for fuse
> fusefs-libs-2.7.0_1 FUSE allows filesystem implementation in userspace
> fusefs-ntfs-1.913   Mount NTFS partitions (read/write) and disk images
> [user at pasargadae ~]$ pkg_info | grep libublio
> libublio-20070103   User space caching library
> ----------
> According to the fusefs-ntfs Makefile revision 1.19 (the current one which I
> have installed is revision 1.20), a symlink to /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g is
> placed in /usr/sbin/mount_ntfs-3g to allow using with 'mount -t ntfs-3g' and
> in /etc/fstab, after mounting /usr. So my current /etc/fstab looks like the
> following:
> ----------
> [user at pasargadae ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
> # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> Pass#
> /dev/ad0s2b             none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/ad0s2a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
> /dev/ad0s2d             /home           ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/acd0               /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> /dev/ad0s1              /mnt/windows    ntfs-3g rw              0       0
> ----------
> However, when I boot the system, I get the following errors:
> ----------
> [user at pasargadae ~]$ dmesg -a
> ...
> swapon: adding /dev/ad0s2b as swap device
> Starting file system checks:
> /dev/ad0s2a: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
> /dev/ad0s2a: clean, 2720732 free (22356 frags, 337297 blocks, 0.6%fragmentation)
> /dev/ad0s2d: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
> /dev/ad0s2d: clean, 14076698 free (314 frags, 1759548 blocks, 0.0%fragmentation)
> Mounting local file systems:
> fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory
> ...

This is because fuse.ko is not loaded at the time. The Linux version
loads the module if required, but I didn't find patching it for FreeBSD
needed because of the rc.d script (here the problem is about ordering,
see below).

It can be solved by adding the "late" option in /etc/fstab, so it will
only try in the second one (which leads to the other problem). I've
added this information to pkg-message.

> 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
> ----------

This is because mount_fusefs is in /usr/local/sbin and is not in the
search path of fusefs-ntfs (at that time). A patch is waiting for
approval, in the meantime create the symlink manually:

# ln -s /usr/local/sbin/mount_fusefs /usr/sbin

> The first error above is because the fuse kernel module is not yet loaded.
> However, I don't understand the second error from "Mounting late file
> systems" though. Does it show that the symlink is not doing its job? This is
> from /var/log/messages which shows that ntfs-3g has been run:
> ----------
> 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
> ----------
> which can be confirmed by noting that /dev/fuse0 has been created in /dev/
> and that 'ps -ax' shows
> ----------
> 811  ??  Is     0:00.00 mount_ntfs-3g /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/windows (ntfs-3g)
> ----------
> Despite all this, my NTFS partition is not mounted. Does anybody know of a
> solution for this?
> 

It seems NTFS-3G is not prepared for the case where mount_fusefs wasn't
found, that's why it behaves strangely in this case.

BTW, the next time please CC me too so I can work on the problem early.

Best Regards,
Ale
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